Le bruit du vent
2026 · 2m
Directed by Esther Braun
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, family
Tones: contemplative, tender
In a shared moment between a grandfather and his granddaughter Elise, a conversation about how to perceive the world teaches her that beauty lies not only in what we see, but in what we feel.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A two-minute meditation on intergenerational wisdom and sensory perception—it's the kind of formally restrained, almost silent film that sounds like a greeting card until you realize it's deliberately refusing spectacle entirely, which is either bold or boring depending on whether Braun actually earns that restraint.
Braun positions this within a lineage of lyrical family portraiture—Koreeda, perhaps early Ducournau—where the formal choice to let silence and wind carry philosophical weight becomes the film's entire argument; the editing space between what Elise sees and what she's taught to feel is where the tradition lives.
The singular move here is the decision to make wind—not music, not voice-over—the primary vehicle for emotional transmission; that choice transforms what could be saccharine into something genuinely felt, and it's a sound design call that justifies the entire 2-minute runtime.