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2026 · 2m
Directed by Isalyne Bruyère
Genres: drama, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
As he gathers himself before his father's grave, a young man believes he perceives an almost unreal call; a feminine presence haunts his nights, troubling his senses, as he gradually abandons himself to an elusive beauty that always escapes him.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
This is elegant melancholy, sure, but it's also exactly the kind of tasteful grief-and-apparition film that gets programmed into every second festival—Bruyère's doing it well, but she's not breaking the form, just inhabiting it like it was made for her.
Bruyère situates herself deliberately in the lineage of poetic surrealism—Cocteau's shadow hangs over the feminine specter, the formal restraint in the editing, the way absence becomes presence—and executes with enough rigor and considered pacing that the melancholy feels earned rather than assumed.
The film lives in the decision to keep the feminine presence *felt* rather than clearly seen—it's a sound design and negative space choice that costs nothing but demands everything from the viewer's attention, and Bruyère commits to it absolutely.