Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: "Phony Wars" () is a 2023 French-Swiss avant-garde essay short film directed by Jean-Luc Godard and written by Fabrice Aragno, Nicole Brenez and Jean-Paul Battaggia. It was the first project released after Godard's death.

The short film had its world premiere at the "Cannes Classics" section of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, alongside a 4K restoration of Le Mépris (1963), as a tribute to the filmmaker.

Plot "Rejecting the billions of alphabetic diktats to liberate the incessant metamorphoses and metaphors of a necessary and true language by re-turning to the locations of past film shoots, while keeping track of modern times."

Release The short film had its world premiere at the "Cannes Classics" section of the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, alongside a 4K restoration of Le Mépris (1963) and the French documentary Godard by Godard (2023), as a tribute to the filmmaker.

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