Le prisme
2026 · 2m
Directed by Hasssane Keita, Sara Hafid
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age
Tones: contemplative, whimsical
Lou and Tao, two cinema students, must make a short film on the theme of beauty, but they hold totally opposed visions of the concept; each shows their version through images, duelling their ideas until they find a scenario.
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Two film students arguing about beauty could've been a tedious essay—instead Keita and Hafid turn it into a formal duel that actually *uses* cinema to prove the point, which is the kind of sneaky meta-move that works because it doesn't announce itself.
A film about cinema students making a film about beauty, structured as a controlled argument between opposing aesthetics—the lineage runs through Godard and Vigo, but what's remarkable is how the directors honor that tradition while making something entirely their own through rigorous compositional choices.
The decision to let each character's vision literally show itself through competing image sequences, rather than debating it, is the hinge—suddenly you're watching two directorial voices collide in real time, and that single structural choice transforms what could be talking heads into something tactile and alive.