024
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Roberto Moralo
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, dark, melancholic
After countless unanswered calls to a suicide helpline, Eneko confronts the silence that consumes him, in an intimate portrait of loneliness and of not being heard at the most critical moment.
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The suicide helpline premise feels like it's begging for sentimentality, but Moralo refuses the catharsis—just phone calls that don't connect, silence that actually means something. It's a film that understands that sometimes the subversive move isn't genre-bending, it's just *not flinching*.
024 sits in a formal lineage of minimalist cinema—the kind of constraint-based work that recalls early Bresson or contemporary slow practitioners—where the absence of answer becomes its own compositional strategy, each unanswered call a deliberate structural choice rather than narrative accident.
The entire film hinges on one decision: treating the silence *after* each call as the scene, not the call itself—that shift from expectation to void is what transforms a painful subject into something formally alive, and it's executed with the kind of economy that only comes from knowing exactly where to place the camera and then leave it alone.