Death will come & shall have your eyes (Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos)
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Edu
Genres: drama, experimental, fantasy
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
In Galicia, where fog envelops and transforms the landscape, life and the beyond blur into a single horizon in this short tale of death's coming.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Death arrives as a fog-wreathed meditation rather than a provocation, which means it's doing the opposite of what experimental work usually promises—it's beautiful and mournful where you'd expect it to be unsettling or strange, and honestly, that restraint is almost radical.
Edu stakes this firmly in the lineage of poetic cinema and Galician landscape tradition, letting fog become both formal device and metaphysical boundary with the kind of measured visual grammar that justifies every frame; the blur between life and afterlife isn't conceptual flourish but the film's essential architecture.
The decision to let the fog do the heavy lifting—to trust atmospheric density over narrative momentum—transforms what could be precious into something genuinely haunting, especially in how it forces the viewer to search within obscurity rather than be shown.