Basado En Alquileres Reales
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Eric Peña
Genres: comedy, satire, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
A couple in their thirties has everything ready to achieve their goal of renting a flat in the city, but the system will not make it easy in this surreal social comedy about housing.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A three-minute evisceration of late-stage housing precarity that refuses to make the couple sympathetic or the system comprehensible—it just warps both into increasingly unhinged absurdist nightmare fuel, which is exactly the move most festivals would sand down into a polite critique.
Peña's surrealist scaffold sits productively between Buñuel's bureaucratic grotesquerie and contemporary TikTok-adjacent satire, though the formal rigour wavers slightly in the third act when visual invention starts outpacing narrative architecture.
The sound design choice—the way bureaucratic speech patterns become almost rhythmic, mechanical white noise layered under domestic conversation—does the real work here; it's what transforms a relatable complaint into something that feels genuinely hallucinogenic on a micro-budget.