A political Story
2013 · 27m · España
Directed by Lander Camarero
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, provocative
Film student Lauren C. Carroll decides to make her graduation project a politically committed work rather than pure entertainment, unlike the rest of her class.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A film student making a 'political' graduation project sounds like the most self-serious, consensus-approved move imaginable—and yet Camarero seems genuinely interested in the friction between that impulse and the messy reality of what that actually means, which is almost subversive enough to work.
Camarero's film sits thoughtfully within a lineage of meta-cinematic coming-of-age work, using the formal constraint of a graduation project to examine the artist's ethical responsibility—the kind of structurally aware premise that unfolds differently on second viewing.
The single decision to frame this through Carroll's actual creative struggle rather than just the politics she's trying to make gives the whole thing breath; it's the choice that separates self-aware reflection from earnest sermon.