Cacería
2021 · 11m · Argentina
Directed by Ariel Sanna
Genres: crime, drama, thriller
Abril, forty-five, discovers that her daughter's murderer is a serial killer who keeps targeting women who resemble her daughter, and her years-long obsession with stopping him sets her on a collision course with the killer.
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The scouts
On paper this is a revenge thriller—the most overdone premise in indie crime—but Sanna somehow makes the serial killer's logic (targeting look-alikes) a genuinely unsettling mirror that flips victim and hunter into something stranger than the conventional 'mother avenges daughter' beats suggest.
Sanna's control of tension and formal restraint places this solidly in the lineage of European psychological thrillers that trust pacing over exposition; the film's architectural precision—how it builds Abril's obsession without melodrama—marks a filmmaker aware of what the genre demands at its most rigorous.
The entire film hinges on a single recurring visual motif: the killer's compulsion to recreate his victim through resemblance, which Sanna lets the camera linger on in a way that transforms obsession into the film's structural skeleton—that one choice makes an 11-minute premise feel like it contains a full feature's thematic weight.