Option 4
2026 · 2m
Directed by Marwan Zalloum, Michael Asmar
Genres: dark comedy, satire, thriller
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, tense
In a travel agency, a couple looking for an escape off the beaten track is offered ever more unusual destinations — and the promised journey grows more and more troubling.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A travel agency as a descent into moral quicksand—the premise alone is subversive enough, but Zalloum and Asmar actually commit to the bit, letting the destinations get *worse* instead of better, which is the move everyone chickens out on. This is the kind of short that makes you uncomfortable about wanting to laugh.
The escalation follows a classical satire structure—each offer more absurd than the last—but what anchors it is the economy of the 2-minute form; there's no fat, every exchange lands, and the final reveal asks something about complicity that lingers past the credits.
The tonal pivot from 'cute travel comedy' to 'something genuinely unsettling' lives or dies on the moment the couple stops objecting, and the directors nail that micro-performance shift—that's when you realize this isn't satire anymore, it's something darker.