Social Me
2015 · 23m · Canada
Directed by Katia Café-Fébrissy
Genres: coming-of-age, documentary, essay film
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
As teenager Nya approaches adulthood, she reflects critically on how social platforms have shaped her identity, values, and everyday experiences, often replacing direct human contact.
Picked by Margot
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Everyone's making the 'phones are bad' doc right now, and this one doesn't really subvert the premise—it just executes the obvious critique with melancholy restraint, which is the opposite of the irreverent provocation I actually want to see.
Café-Fébrissy positions this essay-documentary in a lineage of introspective coming-of-age work while treating digital mediation as a formal problem, not a moral panic—the contemplative pacing and refusal of polemics signal real curatorial control.
There's a clear decision here about letting silence and Nya's own reflective voice carry the weight instead of overlaying a knowing narrator, and that structural choice—trusting the subject over the apparatus—is what actually makes this feel honest rather than prepackaged.