

Two People Exchanging Saliva
Lovers from afar
In a society where kissing is punishable by death, and people pay for things by receiving slaps to the face, Angine, an unhappy woman, shops compulsively in a department store. There, she becomes fascinated by a playful salesgirl. Despite the prohibition of kissing, the two become close, raising the suspicions of a jealous colleague.
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- Released
- Budget
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- Language
- French
- jealousy
- middle east
- department store
- punishment
- black and white
- kissing
- shopping
- shopgirl
- queer
- short film
- face slap
- absurd
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France
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereTelluride Film Festival30 Aug 2024
- PremiereAFI FEST25 Oct 2024
- PremiereSeattle International Film Festival17 May 2025
- Digital / OTTThe New Yorker Screening Room21 Nov 2025
United KingdomGB
- PremiereBFI Flare Film Festival22 Mar 2025
- Theatrical12A27 Nov 2025
AustraliaAU
- PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival8 Aug 2025
BelgiumBE
- PremierePink Screens Festival (Brussels)1 Nov 2025
FranceFR
- PremiereFestival international du court-métrage de Clermont-Ferrand1 Feb 2025
GreeceGR
- PremiereThess International Short Film Festival8 Oct 2025
UkraineUA
- PremiereLviv International Film Festival Wiz-Art17 Sept 2025
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Two People Exchanging Saliva was released on 27 November 2025.
Audience reviews
1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
1/17/2026
Well it certainly wasn’t sponsored by Colgate. Indeed, that is probably just about as illegal in this French society as Semtex. Kissing isn’t even mentionable let alone do-able, and sales in garlic chewing gum are rocketing. Every morning before she enters her plush department store for work, “Malaise” (Luàna Bajrami) has to breathe on the face of a security guard on the staff entrance (so heaven only knows how long …
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