DETENTE
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Yonathan Feijoo
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Raúl tries to flee from what overwhelms him, but he himself must call a halt, because it is already too late to keep escaping.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Three minutes of a guy running from himself—except the twist is he's the one who stops it? That's the kind of paradox everyone else would flatten into metaphor, but Feijoo lets it breathe as genuine contradiction, which is exactly what makes it unsettling.
A cleanly structured inversion of the escape narrative that locates itself squarely in the lineage of introspective European short cinema—the restraint in both form and performance carries real formal discipline.
The entire film lives in that moment when Raúl decides to stop running: the choice to hold on his face rather than cut away is what transforms this from premise into something that actually *means* something about surrender and exhaustion.