Aparcados
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Ben Fernández, Dani Ortega
Genres: dark comedy, family, fantasy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
A grandson and his grandmother come up with a plan to throw Death out of the house.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A grandmother and grandson tag-teaming Death itself out the front door—it's absurdist family comedy that shouldn't work but somehow does, and the fact that it's *whimsical* about existential dread is exactly the kind of premise that makes people uncomfortable in the best way.
Three minutes of formally controlled dark comedy that sits comfortably in a lineage of European absurdist shorts, with clear craft choices in how the tonal shifts between tenderness and cosmic horror are managed.
The decision to play the intergenerational partnership—grandmother and grandson as co-conspirators against Death—with genuine warmth rather than irony is what transforms this from concept into something that actually *lands*.