Sur le bout de la langue
2026 · 2m
Directed by Ingrid Bagassien
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
Two students revise for their Italian exam in the middle of the night; Audrey confesses to Yzée that she hates Creole, her grandparents' native tongue, and claims she no longer remembers it — until Yzée asks her to say a few words and only one expression surfaces.
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It's a school-exam setup that could've been dead on arrival, but Bagassien refuses the obvious—this isn't about grades or pressure, it's about linguistic betrayal and the body remembering what the mind tries to forget, which is genuinely unsettling.
A tightly constructed two-minute study in intergenerational shame and linguistic inheritance, where the formal restraint of the midnight-study framing becomes the container for something far more complex about cultural estrangement and its limits.
The whole film hinges on one perfect choice: that moment when only the Creole phrase surfaces unbidden, and Bagassien lets it sit in the silence rather than resolve it—the sound design and editing commit entirely to that involuntary rupture, which is where the real story lives.