Corta Rollos
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Jesús Jiménez Pérez
Genres: drama, fantasy, mystery
Tones: contemplative, surreal, theatrical
Two medieval knights duel in the forest, but when the battle is over, the reality behind it is revealed.
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A medieval duel setup that pivots into something genuinely disorienting—the kind of premise-flip that makes you retroactively question what you just watched, which is exactly the subversive move most scouts would sleep on but shouldn't.
Jiménez Pérez situates this squarely in the lineage of reality-unveiling fables, executing the reveal with formal precision that recalls both theatrical tradition and contemporary short cinema's playful deconstruction of genre expectation.
The entire film hinges on whatever structural or tonal choice happens at that reveal moment—if it's a cut, a sound bridge, a performance shift—that single decision either collapses the premise or crystallizes why this 3-minute format was the only honest way to tell it.