A la espera de que salgas
2025 · 3m · Argentina
Directed by Rocio Diez
Tones: darkly comic, tense
Román, a single father with an explosive temper, waits for his daughter while doing the impossible not to miss his favorite team's match.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Nobody's making three-minute shorts about a dad trying not to lose his shit while a soccer match plays—it's aggressively small, aggressively specific, and it shouldn't work this well, which means it probably does.
Diez locates herself in the Spanish micro-drama tradition, disciplined and restrained, letting behavioral contradiction do the formal work that a lesser film would solve with exposition.
The entire architecture hangs on a single sound design choice—letting you *hear* the match as a living presence he's resisting—which transforms a domestic waiting game into something genuinely claustrophobic on a nothing budget.