Véga
2026 · 2m
Directed by Éloïse Le Vouedec
Genres: drama, romance, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tense
On an ordinary night, a couple is watching the sky when a phenomenon upends their world. Between revelation and resentment, Zoé and Maxine face one of the universe's most sublime spectacles — and one of its most deadly.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Véga plays it too straight—sublime cosmic horror wrapped in couple's-therapy dialogue. The premise wants to be a gut-punch, but Le Vouedec keeps us at arm's length, which feels like a missed opportunity to actually break something.
A formally assured meditation on scale and intimacy, where the vastness of astronomical phenomenon collides with the domestic frame; the restraint here—both in runtime and emotional register—recalls the best of contemporary European short cinema, particularly in how it refuses melodrama.
The entire film turns on a single choice: shooting the couple's reaction in negative space, letting the phenomenon live offscreen while their faces absorb its light—it's economical filmmaking that transforms a two-minute window into something that feels cosmically consequential.