A 13-minute horror where turning 18 feels like dying. You will never blow out candles the same way.
Set during the final ten minutes before an eighteenth birthday, the film follows a young protagonist on the threshold between childhood and adulthood. Through poetic monologues and symbolic ritual, it explores the fear, loss, and quiet transformation that accompany coming of age. Blending introspection with elements of symbolic horror, the film treats growing up not as a celebration, but as a rite of passage, culminating in a final return to childhood memory as midnight arrives.
Direction
Mazieres directs himself in four roles—pure controlled chaos.
Cinematography
Those final ten minutes feel like watching time physically decay.
Writing
Monologues that make growing up sound like a curse.
Director
Yann Mazieres
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mazieres plays every version of himself; the casting list reads like a dissociative episode made manifest.
The film treats the birthday ritual as horror's oldest beat—sacrifice. Here, what's sacrificed is the self that existed before.
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