Reine
2026 · 2m
Directed by Jeanne Grollier
Genres: fantasy, horror, satire
Tones: dark, surreal, theatrical
In a world where the inhabitants are deprived of all authenticity, a strange ceremony celebrates the queen of beauty; one by one the inhabitants prostrate themselves to make her an offering, hoping to leave safe and sound - until one person's special offering disrupts the ceremony.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A two-minute ceremony where beauty worship becomes a grotesque ritual of offering—and then someone flips the script entirely: this is exactly the kind of premise that makes consensus programmers squirm, which means Grollier's already won half the battle by asking *what if the disruption is the point?*
Grollier situates herself in a lineage of theatrical surrealism and social satire that traces back through Buñuel and contemporary European horror-cinema; the formal discipline required to compress a full ceremonial arc into two minutes speaks to a director thinking carefully about rhythm and symbolic density.
The entire film pivots on one person's offering breaking protocol—and the decision to let that disruption breathe, to let the audience feel the ceremony's scaffolding crack, is the kind of structural gambit that turns a satire with modest means into something that lands with real weight.