Adiós Hija
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Jesús MM
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
A man calls his daughter after a long time without news of her — until time runs out and it is too late.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise reads like a greeting card, but there's something deliberately withholding happening here—a film that trusts silence more than catharsis, which is genuinely rare in the emotional-gut-punch shorts circuit.
A restrained meditation on absence and regret that positions itself firmly in the lineage of Latin American intimate portraiture; the formal economy of three minutes demands a precision in every beat that elevates this beyond sentiment.
The entire film hinges on how the director handles the voice on the other end of that call—what we hear versus what we don't—and that single sound design choice transforms a simple premise into something that actually breaks you.