Un Soa Peut En Cacher Un Autre
2026 · 2m
Directed by Mathis Lejeune
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, LGBTQ+
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Soa, 17, tries to hide his orientation; at nightfall the teenager meets a guide who may allow him to overcome his fears and shine under a new day.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's competent coming-of-age territory—the metaphor of night/day, the guide, the orientation arc—but there's nothing here that *breaks* the form; it's earnest where it could be strange, and that's a missed opportunity for a short this brief.
Lejeune demonstrates formal control in a 2-minute frame that respects the contemplative register of its influences—there's lineage here, from intimate European coming-of-age cinema—though the symbolic machinery occasionally outweighs the specificity of Soa's interior life.
The meeting with the guide is where this lives or dies: if there's a single gesture, glance, or sonic choice that makes that encounter feel *earned* rather than archetypal, that's the decision that transforms a sincere premise into something that actually stays with you.