Reconnexion
2026 · 2m
Directed by Manon Thi Thu Hanh Degroot, Louis Lafarge
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Alice, Noah, Lenny, and Paul have been friends since childhood, meeting every Friday after school to walk home together for the weekend — but today each is absorbed in a virtual world that cuts them off from the real one, and Alice alone still tries to reconnect them before a beautiful friendship breaks for good.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise lands exactly where you'd expect—four kids, phones, friendship dies—but the formal restraint keeps it from feeling like a sermon, which almost makes it worse (in the best way). There's a refusal here to wring sentiment out of the obvious.
A cleanly executed riff on the disconnection theme, positioned squarely in the lineage of coming-of-age melancholia; the two-minute form enforces an economy that feels deliberate rather than forced, though the film doesn't quite resist its own earnestness.
The entire film hinges on Alice's decision to keep reaching out while the others scroll—and Degroot and Lafarge let that choice breathe in the frame rather than punch it, finding something true in that small, stubborn gesture that makes the whole thing singular.