Néritès
2026 · 2m
Directed by Tim Bascoul
Genres: coming-of-age, dark comedy, drama
Tones: darkly comic, surreal, tender
A teenage girl who feels bad about her skin and constantly compares herself on social media cannot afford a beauty product; her mother proposes an unexpected solution, and the next morning wakes her to see the result of the night.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise walks a tightrope between PSA and provocation—social media anxiety wrapped in a darkly comic Faustian bargain that could easily collapse into preachy, but Bascoul seems genuinely interested in the unsettling space where maternal love meets body horror, which is refreshingly weird.
A compact essay on adolescent vulnerability that situates itself smartly between the lineage of horror-tinged coming-of-age cinema and contemporary social media critique; the restraint of the 2-minute form becomes its formal argument—showing us only what we need to feel the sting.
The masterstroke is the decision to withhold the reveal until morning—that single narrative choice transforms what could be a gimmick-driven piece into something genuinely tender, forcing us to sit with the mother's hope and the daughter's trust before the surreal punchline lands.