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2026 · 2m
Directed by Suresh Kerketta
Tones: contemplative, dark, provocative
In a near future where beauty is a luxury market, a pregnant woman with a marked face is persuaded by her AI to undergo cosmetic surgery — the payment being her unborn child, already promised to a sterile couple.
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Body horror meets reproductive autonomy meets AI persuasion—this premise refuses to sit in any comfortable lane, and the fact that it dangles the question of consent across three different agents (woman, AI, future parents) is exactly the kind of subversive knot most scouts would untangle into something digestible. Kerketta goes the opposite direction, and it works.
There's a lineage here—echoes of Cronenberg's anxieties about the body, the cold logic of sci-fi ethics films like *Never Let Me Go*—but Kerketta stakes out his own formal territory by using the brevity to create a kind of moral compression chamber, where every image has to earn its philosophical weight.
The choice to let the AI's voice be the persuasive fulcrum rather than the couple or the woman's own desperation is the fulcrum that makes this work: it reframes the entire power dynamic in two minutes, and you can feel how precisely that one casting/voice decision elevates what could've been a stock cautionary tale into something unsettling and specific.