Trouves la beauté
2026 · 2m
Directed by Abdoul Khadre Diop, Elwis Faton
Genres: adventure, fantasy, mystery
Tones: contemplative, surreal, whimsical
A man goes in search of beauty, with a generous reward offered by a mysterious magic box as the prize.
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A magic box offering rewards for beauty hunts could've been twee fantasy-by-numbers, but Diop and Faton seem genuinely uninterested in answering their own premise—that refusal to satisfy is the best thing about it.
The whimsy-to-surrealism tonal grammar here sits in productive tension with a two-minute runtime that forbids the kind of elegant resolution this narrative tradition typically demands.
In 120 seconds, they've made the choice to let the search matter more than the finding, and a single sustained camera choice or sound decision likely does all that heavy lifting—that's where the craft lives.