Ouistiti
2026 · 2m
Directed by Pierre-Antoine Guyomard
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
New parents learn that you don't choose your parents, your family — and even less the face of your newborn.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A two-minute absurdist gut-punch that treats parental horror not as sentiment but as cosmic joke — the premise alone (you don't get to choose your kid's face, and that's somehow darkly hilarious) is the kind of subversive flip that makes consensus critics nervous, which means it's exactly right.
Guyomard's restraint in execution—the economy of a 2-minute form married to a concept that could easily topple into cheap provocation—suggests a filmmaker aware of how comedy and existential dread sit together in the French absurdist tradition, from Vian onward.
The film's entire architecture hinges on a single tonal choice: treating this premise as matter-of-fact rather than sentimental, which transforms parental anxiety into something genuinely strange and funny without a wasted frame or a single on-the-nose beat.