Abayomi
2015 · 2m · España
Directed by Guillermo López López
Tones: contemplative, dark, provocative
Abayomi is an undocumented foreigner in Spain trying to make an honest living in the narrow limbo western society has reserved for him, but this time the fable's moral will be very different.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A two-minute fable that promises to flip the moral script on immigrant struggle—exactly the kind of subversive premise that makes consensus scouts nervous. López López isn't interested in your sympathy; he's interested in the contradiction.
The film positions itself within a long lineage of social allegory, though the deliberate brevity and tonal darkness suggest a departure from traditional fable resolution; the craftsmanship lies in what remains unresolved.
Two minutes is brutally short for this premise, but the specificity of how López López frames the limbo—the compositional choices that isolate Abayomi within the frame—is what makes the moral inversion actually land rather than just conceptually sound.