Les veillantes
2026 · 2m
Directed by Eva Guthleber
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, fantasy
Tones: contemplative, mythic, tender
Guided by an inner voice, a young woman crosses the threshold of dreams to rejoin the women — the witches — of her lineage, inheriting a discreet magic of care, intuition and beauty handed down through remedies, cards and gestures.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Everyone's going to call this a soft, dreamy meditation on heritage—which is exactly why it's boring Felix. The premise promises witchcraft and lineage but plays it so tasteful and tender it forgets to actually *disturb* anything; a missed chance to make inherited magic feel dangerous instead of decorative.
Guthleber positions herself deliberately in the tradition of feminist mythmaking and intimate magical realism—the care rituals, the cards, the gestural language all sit within a conscious lineage that traces back through decades of women's cinema, and the 2-minute form is edited with real formal restraint, letting each threshold moment breathe without sentimentality.
The entire film pivots on the decision to let the inner voice remain *non-diegetic*—a whisper that doesn't quite belong to the world onscreen—which transforms what could've been maudlin spiritual kitsch into something genuinely uncanny and specific to this particular crossing between waking and inherited knowledge.