MARQUANTE
2026 · 2m
Directed by Emi Mahé
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, dark, provocative
In a world where every young girl must be marked on the face to define her place in society — Seduction, Discretion, Beauty — Roxanne waits her turn, and the closer it comes, the more doubt gnaws at her.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A coming-of-age film that weaponizes body-horror and bureaucratic compliance into a visual metaphor for gendered social control—exactly the kind of premise that makes you squirm and think at once, and nobody else would've picked it first.
Mahé situates this in a lineage of dystopian body-marking cinema (Pasolini, Kusama), and the formal restraint of the 2-minute runtime forces a precision of image that respects both the sci-fi tradition and the gravity of its subject matter.
The decision to keep Roxanne's face unmarked through most of the film—letting the anticipatory silence do the work instead of the mark itself—is the craft choice that transforms what could be heavy-handed into something genuinely unsettling on a micro-budget.