Cambio de Baño
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Elisa Bianca Poiana
Genres: coming-of-age, dark comedy, experimental
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, surreal
In 1970s Spain, a rebellious schoolgirl drags her timid classmate to the boys' bathroom to crush pills and get high, while a teacher watches them from outside.
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The scouts
A three-minute provocation that treats transgression as mundane spectacle—drug use in a school bathroom becomes almost absurdist comedy, and the teacher's voyeuristic presence inverts every moral compass you expected the film to point at. It's exactly the kind of premise that makes programmers uncomfortable, which means it's working.
Poiana's compositional control—the geometry of the bathroom space, the claustrophobic framing—recalls a lineage of European coming-of-age cinema that weaponizes formal restraint against subject matter that could easily become sensational; the surreal tonal register keeps it in dialogue with experimental shorts that foreground style over sentiment.
The decision to keep the camera static and let the girls' desperation unfold in real time against institutional architecture is what sells it—no manipulative cutting, just the accumulation of small gestures in a cramped space that suggests volumes about complicity and shame without spelling any of it out.