Prix de Beauté
2026 · 2m
Directed by Milena Hernandez
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
For once, the competition for the prize is not between women, in an angry feminist comedy depicting the absurdity of the social expectations weighing on women in heterosexual relationships - 'natural' femininity, the invisible work of beauty, permanent self-surveillance and the waste of life imposed on them.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Finally—a feminist comedy that doesn't ask permission, flipping the script so brutally that the audience has to sit with their own complicity instead of applauding themselves for getting it. Two minutes of actual subversion; most films take 90 minutes to say half of what Hernandez does here.
Hernandez positions herself within a lineage of satirical cinema—Buñuel's absurdism, the formal precision of feminist experimental work—but the two-minute constraint forces a rigor that many features lose; the editing decisions here are interrogating the form itself, not just the content.
The singular move is the inversion of the competition frame itself—by removing women as rivals and reframing the stakes, Hernandez makes one formal choice that collapses the entire machinery of the premise, and on this budget and runtime, that's the kind of economy that separates alert filmmaking from everything else.