Premier stage
2026 · 2m
Directed by Julia Ravaud
Genres: comedy
Camille, a young graduate determined to nail her job interview, walks through the wrong door and finds herself facing an exasperated casting director desperately seeking a face for her next ad - and a misunderstanding takes hold.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise is a well-worn comedy beat—wrong door, mistaken identity—which is exactly why most people would pass; Ravaud leans into it anyway, which means either she's found something genuinely perverse in the misunderstanding or she's making a very calculated bet that sincerity beats subversion.
A cleanly constructed two-minute comedic exchange that understands the rhythms of workplace absurdism and casting-room desperation as formal material; the economy of setup and payoff feels deliberate, though whether Ravaud is mining new territory from this well-trodden scenario remains the question.
Two minutes is unforgiving, and Ravaud's real move here is probably in how she times the recognition—the exact moment Camille and the director lock eyes and realize what's happened—because that single beat either lands as character comedy or falls flat as premise, and everything hinges on that choice.