TERMINAL 1
2026 · 2m
Directed by Antoine BERMEJO RODRIGUEZ
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
A homeless man living near an airport's Terminal 1 tries to make beautiful things with what people throw at him.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Everyone wants to make dignity-porn about the homeless—this could've been treacly nonsense, but Bermejo's refusing to sentimentalize the act of creation itself, letting the found objects speak without uplift-narrative crutches, which is genuinely weird.
The formal restraint here—allowing two minutes to unfold without manufactured drama—situates itself squarely in a lineage of essay-film and observational poetry, where the frame's patience becomes the entire argument.
The decision to let us see the man's hands at work, the specific textures of refuse becoming material, is what transforms this from concept into cinema—it's the tactile edit, the rhythm of making itself, that does all the heavy lifting on a nothing budget.