Nimic

Nimic (2020) is a twelve-minute short film by Yorgos Lanthimos — a tight, quietly disturbing watch online on iFILM. Matt Dillon plays a professional cellist who asks a stranger a throwaway question on the subway. From that moment, she begins mirroring him exactly.

Every word he says, she repeats. Every move he makes, she matches. Daphne Patakia is the stranger, and she plays it without a hint of menace or madness — just a calm, precise doubling that becomes more suffocating the longer it goes on. Lanthimos offers no explanation, no genre signposting, no resolution. The film is about identity, and how little it takes to destabilize it.

A perfect entry point for anyone new to Lanthimos, and a sharp, strange addition for fans of The Favourite and The Lobster. Watch Nimic online on iFILM.