Shiny happy people

Manu lives under a dictatorship of happiness, a world of permanent well-being. But Rose has just broken his heart, and maintaining the illusion is becoming increasingly complicated. One evening, a dealer offers him something that is now only sold on the black market: sad music...

Direction, screenplay: Mathilde Petit (France, 2019)
Cast: Souleymane Sylla (Manu), Camille Rutherford (Lisa), Sébastien Chassagne (Clément), Céline Fuhrer (Corinne)
Genre: comedy drama
Awards: selected for the Brussels Short Film Festival (Belgium, 2019)