NOUS LES Z'ANIMAINS
2026 · 2m
Directed by Franck Boces
Genres: animation, essay film, experimental
Tones: contemplative, tender, whimsical
Between animation and live action, humans, animals, and nature answer one another in a vibrant visual poem about our place among the living.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
It's too earnest, too polished—a visual essay that knows exactly what it wants to say about humans and nature and says it with the confidence of someone who's never been told 'no.' I respect the hybrid form, but it feels like the experimental part is window dressing on a deeply conventional meditation.
Boces positions himself in a clear lineage of essayistic cinema and visual poetry, and the formal rigor of the animation-to-live-action dialectic shows real consideration of how image and editing can argue philosophy without narration—this is the kind of craft-aware work that justifies its own ambitious premise.
The decision to let animals and nature respond *back* rather than simply be observed—to make the film a conversation rather than a statement—is where it transcends the typical nature documentary impulse, and you feel that choice ripple through every frame.