Un nouvel air
2026 · 2m
Directed by Léonard Hinton
Genres: adventure, coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Grieving her father, a mountain enthusiast, a young woman with no experience decides to climb a summit to understand what he was so passionate about. Despite her mother's warnings, the physical and inner ordeal becomes a path of resilience.
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A grieving daughter climbs a mountain to feel close to her dead father—it's exactly the kind of redemptive grief narrative that gets made a thousand times, and Hinton doesn't seem interested in breaking that mold, just executing it competently.
Hinton works within the mountain-as-metaphor tradition with measured respect; the pacing and visual composition suggest someone aware of how cinema has previously mapped interior states onto landscape, even if the execution doesn't quite arrive at genuine formal innovation.
That two-minute runtime is doing all the heavy lifting here—Hinton trusts the compression to let the effort of the climb (and the exhaustion in her face) carry the emotional weight rather than spelling out the father-daughter bond, which is exactly the restraint that makes this land.