La Poursuite
2026 · 2m
Directed by Giona Castelli, Loris Kolly
Genres: mystery, sci-fi, thriller
In an undetermined future, a man in peculiar makeup runs at full speed through a ruined city, carrying a bag whose contents are a mystery.
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Two minutes of pure unhinged energy—a guy in war paint sprinting through apocalypse with an unknowable MacGuffin, no exposition, no apology. Everyone else is picking plot; these directors picked *velocity and dread*, and somehow that's enough.
The formal restraint here is admirable: a two-minute chase stripped to its essential grammar, shot with the discipline of early sci-fi cinema but filtered through something stranger and more contemporary. One questions what tradition this film is in conversation with—and that ambiguity is precisely its sophistication.
The decision to keep the bag's contents invisible isn't mystery-for-mystery's sake; it's the entire emotional spine—every frame burns with the protagonist's need to *move*, and that choice, sustained across 120 seconds, transforms a premise into something genuinely unsettling.