Mon innocence à moi
2026 · 2m
Directed by Chiara Sabini
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
Three children who have nothing in common - one with parents absent through work, one with a sex-worker mother, one with an alcoholic father - hold on to the beauty of their innocence amid complicated home lives.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's a soft-focus grief film that could've been treacly garbage, but Sabini resists the urge to make these kids' suffering poetic — there's a refusal to exploit that actually feels subversive in a landscape drowning in poverty-porn coming-of-age stories.
A formally restrained piece that understands the long European tradition of childhood-as-prism for social realism; the economy of its two minutes and the compositional clarity recall early Koreeda or Haneke's lighter work, situating innocence not as sentiment but as formal constraint.
The entire film hinges on a single choice — letting the children simply exist together without explanation or voiceover — and that decision to trust silence over exposition is what transforms three stock premises into something that actually breathes.