Mimi
2026 · 2m
Directed by Morgane Parelli
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, dark, melancholic
Mimi is bulimic and uncomfortable in her own skin. Confronted with the beauty diktats imposed by social media, she internalises the gaze of others until she loses herself, as ordinary pressure slides into a more intimate, silent violence.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A two-minute descent into eating disorder and self-erasure sounds like the kind of worthy-but-expected prestige wound that festivals program in blocks—Parelli executes it competently, but there's nothing here that makes me lean forward and ask 'wait, how did she do that?'
Parelli positions this squarely in the lineage of body-horror and social media critique that's become almost canonical in contemporary short form; the melancholic tone is held with discipline, though the film sits comfortably within its tradition rather than interrogating it.
The decision to let Mimi's loss of self play out through *withdrawal from the frame itself*—her physical retreat and visual diminishment within the composition—is the hinge that transforms what could be a PSA into something genuinely unsettling and specific.