Trophée
2026 · 2m
Directed by Maxime Bregowy
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic
At watch, a wildlife photographer patiently waits for nature to offer him his trophy.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A wildlife photographer waiting for his trophy is the perfect setup for a satire that quietly demolishes the whole predatory logic of the genre—it's the kind of premise that sounds simple until you realize what Bregowy is actually saying, and by then you're complicit.
The economy of *Trophée* recalls a lineage of essayistic shorts that use constraint to sharpen critique; Bregowy's two-minute patience mirrors his subject's, turning formal restraint into thematic statement with the precision of measured cinema.
The sound design—or perhaps the deliberate absence of it—becomes the film's most devastating choice, letting silence do the work that dialogue couldn't, which is exactly the kind of technical decision that transforms a simple observation into something that sticks.