TOUS BEAUX
2026 · 2m
Directed by Nina Bensalem, Ben Zeitoun, Romane Jamin
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Nina, a 16-year-old high-school student, throws a party for four guests who do not know each other but share one thing: none of them can admit their own beauty. As the evening unfolds, Nina suffers in silence on the sidelines.
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The setup screams after-school special—teenagers can't say nice things about themselves—but then Nina just *watches* from the sidelines while everyone else gets their moment; that inversion, that silent suffering as the host, is perverse enough to stick with you.
Bensalem, Zeitoun, and Jamin work in the lineage of Chloé Zhao's observational restraint, letting the formal constraint of the premise (four guests, one shared wound) unfold with compositional precision across two minutes.
The filmmaking choice that makes this work is the decision to make Nina the invisible center—she never speaks her insecurity, never joins the circle, and it's that withholding of her voice that does all the heavy lifting in a two-minute frame.