Because of (U)

Berlinale Shorts 2025

Laura, a young woman, is trapped in a toxic relationship with a famous rapper. After a violent argument with him, her reality begins to warp. While wandering in a fantomatic suburb, her isolation becomes both geographical and emotional. Laura struggles with obsessive thoughts and repressed memories, which reveals a form of social anxiety defined by contradictory feelings: a constant fear of missing out and her inability to build healthy relationships. Because of (U) portrays the stories we construct to hide painful truths, the selves imposed on us, and the ways in which we free ourselves from their constraints. The film plays with a documentary approach and elements of magical realism. It explores loneliness and captures the archetypes of romantic relationships, juxtaposing the small and the monumental, the familiar and the distorted, the everyday and the hallucinatory.

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by Tohé Commaret (Director)
with Emma Gonzales-Commaret, Bastien Domergues France 2024 French 13' Colour International premiere

With

Emma Gonzales-Commaret (Laura)
Bastien Domergues (the boy)

Crew

Director	Tohé Commaret
Cinematography	Nicolas Jardin
Editing	Tohé Commaret, Rafael Torres Calderón
Music	Alexandre Teiller
Sound Design	Alexandre Teiller
Production Design	Louise Mekylla Bachir
Animation	Andrei Bulatchik
Producers	Jen Miola, Alexia Wallemacq, Eliott Brunet

Produced by

Miles Cinéma

Paris, France

Tohé Commaret

Born in Vitry-sur-Seine, France, the director and erotic dancer of Franco-Chilean origin trained at the Beaux-Arts de Paris and later at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains. Her cinematic work spans experimental cinema and documentary, exploring visual and narrative territories where intimacy and social issues intersect. With a poetic yet committed approach, she seeks to redefine cinematic forms and examine the relationship between art, politics and society in the contemporary world. Her short film 8 screened in Berlinale Shorts in 2023.

Filmography (short films)

2019 Amor sur mama 2021 Eso que nos lleva 2022 8 2024 Because of (U)

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025