

What if your baby daddy was... you? This 18-minute nightmare asks the unaskable.
In the not too distant future, a lonely man conceives a twisted plan to fulfill his desire to have a child.
Acting
McCarthy's sweaty desperation carries every frame.
Direction
Le Flaguais stretches 18 minutes into eternal discomfort.

Director
Maxime Le Flaguais
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title references the snake eating its own tail — fitting for a film about self-consuming desire where creation and destruction collapse into one grotesque loop.
Premiered at Fantasia Festival 2020, this Quebecois short arrived as reproductive rights debates intensified globally, making its gender-bending biological horror uncomfortably timely.