NEXT
2026 · 2m
Directed by Alice Remond
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, dark, provocative
In the closed world of modelling, a young model goes from casting to casting under the implacable gaze of an industry obsessed with performance and appearance, where bodies become objects and voices are silenced.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise reads like every think-piece about fashion's exploitation—worthy but predictable—until you realize Remond's actually interested in the *mechanics* of silencing, not just documenting it; that's the subversion worth fighting for.
A sharp formal restraint here: the two-minute constraint forces Remond to work in negative space, letting the industry's gaze do the violence without commentary, which situates her in a lineage of feminist cinema that trusts the viewer's eye.
The singular choice is structural—bodies moving through castings with no sound design except the industrial hum of the space itself—which transforms what could be didactic into something genuinely suffocating on a micro-budget.