This is not a chrismas movie
2026 · 2m
Directed by Collective
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: melancholic, tender
At middle school, Oona watches David from afar, until Sarah decides it is time to bring her 'up to level': a party, then another — glowy routines, 'perfect' hair, a 'so Frenchy' look — until, the day Oona finally walks through the school gate ready to be noticed, David stops, and his reaction is not the one she expected.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The title's negation is cute misdirection, but the premise—makeover montage leading to romantic letdown—is basically every coming-of-age beat played straight; where's the subversion that justifies two minutes of our time?
A cleanly constructed emotional arc that understands the grammar of female adolescence and social hierarchy, even if the beats—aspiration, transformation, deflation—sit comfortably within the tradition rather than interrogating it.
That final reaction shot from David is everything: the specificity of how a 2-minute film pivots on one face's honest refusal to perform the expected crush-reciprocation, which is what actually makes the emotional weight land instead of just skating surface sentiment.