25 Años en Comorl
2016 · 2m · España
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
After waking from a 25-year coma, Rafael faces the complex process of reintegrating into society. His return unfolds as a homage to comedian Chiquito de la Calzada.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A two-minute resurrection comedy that weaponizes Chiquito de la Calzada as its emotional throughline—most scouts would've buried this premise under sentiment, but instead it swings wildly between absurdist homage and genuine vertigo. This is exactly the kind of film that sounds broken on paper and somehow *works*.
The formal restraint here is admirable: a 2-minute structure that honors both the stand-up tradition it references and the medical-drama genre it subtly parodies, though the dual register threatens to diffuse rather than deepen the piece's thematic reach.
The real lift happens in how the editing splices Chiquito's comedic rhythms into Rafael's disorientation—that one structural choice transforms what could've been sentimental into something genuinely unsettling, holding two tones in tension with almost no budget.