CRUMBLE CITY
2026 · 6m
Directed by Adriana Lopez
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
As the world ends, three teens hunting for one last meal get scammed by Girl Scouts selling cookies — and they want their money back.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Finally—a film that understands apocalypse comedy isn't about how-sad-everything-is but about the absurd social machinery that survives the end of the world. Girl Scouts selling cookies while civilization collapses is the kind of premise that makes you wince and laugh because it's *exactly* the wrong tone everyone else would avoid.
Lopez works in the lineage of absurdist sci-fi comedy—think Bunuel's bite filtered through contemporary indie sensibility—but the formal control here is the editing: each beat lands with the precision of a con artist's timing, which is precisely the film's subject.
The entire film hinges on whether you believe these three desperate teens would actually pursue a refund from Girl Scouts at the end of the world, and Lopez's choice to play it straight—no winking, no meta—is the decision that makes the absurdity *sing*.