A Little Taste
2019 · 5m · España
Directed by Víctor Català
Genres: fantasy, horror, thriller
A little girl flees disoriented through the forest, something seemingly stalking her, until she reaches a small clearing and finds another girl playing alone on a swing.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The setup screams 'kid-in-peril thriller' until it just... stops being that, and nobody's quite sure what it became—which is exactly the kind of tonal ambush that makes consensus scouts nervous and me attentive.
Català works in the lineage of folk-horror and surrealist children's cinema, using the forest-clearing geometry and swing motif with deliberate restraint; the restraint itself is the formal argument.
That moment when the stalking terror dissolves into something else entirely hinges on a single decision—whether to make the second girl mundane or uncanny—and Català's choice there rewires the entire five minutes retroactively.