Mon Trésor
2026 · 2m
Directed by Amélie Parnet, Maxime Baron-Coilbeau
Genres: animation, dark comedy, fantasy
Tones: darkly comic, surreal, whimsical
Mamie Matou has been the great champion of cat beauty contests for years — but as she prepares to compete once more, her precious cat suddenly takes a fatal fall, until a creature pokes the tip of its tail into the story.
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A two-minute absurdist fever dream where a cat-show obsessive gets cosmic intervention via a mystery creature's tail — it's the kind of premise that sounds ridiculous until you realize it's about grief wearing the mask of competition, and suddenly the whimsy becomes genuinely unsettling.
The animation syntax here positions itself carefully between children's fable and Lynchian uncanny, and the editing rhythm (those precise cuts around the fatal fall) shows restraint aware of the surrealist tradition it's playing in without announcing it.
That tail poke — the single moment where the supernatural breaches the mundane competition plot — is the entire film's alchemy, and the choice to make it so tactile and small rather than grandiose is what elevates this from a cute gimmick into something that actually lands.