¿De qué se ríen las hienas?

The scouts

A coming-of-age film that asks 'what do hyenas laugh about?' instead of pretending adolescence has answers—this is exactly the kind of absurdist premise that makes consensus programmers squirm while actually nailing something true about doubt and growing up.

Veiga situates the film in a lineage of poetic surrealism (Vigo, perhaps Tarkovsky's imitators), using formal whimsy to contain rather than resolve existential weight—though the balance between contemplation and whimsy occasionally tips toward precious rather than considered.

The decision to make the hyena's laugh the *question* rather than the answer is what unlocks the whole thing—a single tonal pivot that transforms what could be twee magical realism into something genuinely unsettling about the unknowability of growing up.