Nýmphē
2026 · 2m
Directed by Romane Keiflin, Iman Khelifa
Genres: adventure, fantasy, romance
Tones: contemplative, mythic, whimsical
A man sets off on an adventure to find a nymph, a forest spirit of supposedly perfect beauty.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Two minutes chasing a mythic archetype that's been done to death—unless they're subverting the *wanting* itself, this is just prettified genre work that won't surprise anyone paying attention.
Keiflin and Khelifa situate themselves deliberately within the mythopoeic tradition, and the contemplative restraint suggests a measured engagement with how cinema represents the unattainable—the formal choices here will reward close reading.
In 120 seconds, the distinction lives or dies on a single edit, a color grade, or one moment where the nymph *becomes* more than symbol—and that specificity is what separates a festival darling from a technical exercise.