Là où tout revient
2026 · 2m
Directed by Steven Pappageorgiou
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
When his RER breaks down, a man has no choice but to face his greatest fear — crossing the forest — and an unexpected encounter turns the ordinary trip into an inner journey.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A guy's train breaks down and he has to walk through a forest—sounds like a greeting card until you realize the film is doing something genuinely weird with the boundary between external obstacle and internal mythology, which most shorts are too literal to even attempt.
The two-minute form here is disciplined and purposeful, situating itself in a lineage of European poetic realism while deploying fantasy elements with restraint; the question is whether the metaphorical architecture holds under such temporal compression.
That single decision to blur the RER breakdown with the forest crossing—making you unsure what's literal and what's projected—does all the heavy lifting on a minimal budget, and the film trusts it completely rather than over-explaining.