The Perfect Pick
2025 · 1m · Denmark
Genres: comedy, family, fantasy
Tones: absurdist, theatrical, whimsical
A pretty pink prince needs a steed. None of the kingdom's extravagant horses meet his standards — not even the most magnificent white horse. Then his eyes fall on an unexpected steed: a pig, the most precious pink plump pig he has ever seen.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Everyone expects the prince to ride the white horse—the film practically begs you to guess it—and then it just... doesn't. A pig. The whole thing leans into that absurdist refusal so hard it becomes genuinely funny, which is exactly the kind of subversive logic that makes boring premises worth watching.
The theatrical staging and color theory at work here—that deliberate chromatic echo between prince and pig—shows a filmmaker thinking formally about fairy tale tropes and their visual language, even at this diminutive runtime.
The moment the prince's expression shifts from disappointment to genuine wonder is held just long enough to sell the whole conceit; that single beat of sincere emotion in an otherwise absurdist premise is what keeps this from collapsing into mere gimmick.