Līmĕn
2026 · 2m
Directed by Titouan Liccia
Genres: documentary, drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
On an isolated farm, a young woman farmer raises donkeys and a few cows.
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A two-minute portrait of rural life that refuses to perform drama—no conflict, no arc, just a woman and her animals existing together. It's boring on purpose, which is exactly why it's interesting.
Liccia works in the lineage of slow cinema and observational documentary, though at this length the contemplative register feels more sketch than statement; the formal restraint reads as promising rather than fully resolved.
The entire film hinges on how Liccia frames the donkeys and cows in relation to the woman's body—the spatial choices and that one moment where she moves among them transform what could've been generic pastoral into something intimate and alive.