Ayúdame a recordar
2012 · 17m · España
Directed by Fran Casanova
Genres: drama, family, fantasy
Tones: melancholic, tender, whimsical
Ten-year-old Santi finds a way through fantasy and old comics to restore his grandfather Pelayo's will to live after his wife's death and the onset of Alzheimer's.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's a competent grief story wrapped in comic-book whimsy, but there's nothing here that subverts the form or makes you uncomfortable—just a tender boy-and-grandfather narrative that plays it safe in its fantasy framing.
Casanova situates this squarely in the European family-drama lineage, with a formal restraint in how it weaves magical realism into domestic loss; the editing honors both the grandfather's fragmented memory and the grandson's clear-eyed devotion.
The choice to let the old comics become Santi's actual portal—not just metaphor but visual architecture—is what makes this work; that single decision transforms a modest premise into something that earns its sentiment through craft rather than manipulation.