A LA CAZA
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Víctor Torrents
Genres: drama, LGBTQ+, thriller
Tones: dark, provocative, tense
On a summer day, Daniel and his boyfriend Sergio are enjoying themselves at a pool when an untimely visit triggers a situation as violent as it is unexpected.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Three minutes of poolside gay domesticity that goes volcanic—it's the kind of premise that makes you flinch because you didn't see the trap coming, and the film refuses to wink or apologize for it. Everyone else would've played this safe; Torrents doesn't.
A taut inversion of the pastoral summer-day setup, executed with the restraint of someone who understands how much violence lives in what's *not* shown; the editing knows exactly when to cut away and when to hold, placing it in conversation with contemporary European provocation cinema.
The decision to keep the intrusion offscreen and let the sound design + the actors' faces do the devastation is what transforms a three-minute scenario into something genuinely unsettling—there's a specificity in how Torrents trusts the audience's imagination over spectacle.