Distintos
2017 · 21m · España
Directed by Josevi García Herrero
Tones: contemplative, tender
A social short film about the inclusion of people with Down syndrome, told through an emotional story full of human values.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A well-intentioned inclusion story that plays it devastatingly safe—emotional sincerity isn't subversion, and there's nothing here that surprises or unsettles in the way the best social cinema does.
García Herrero demonstrates formal restraint and emotional clarity in the tradition of intimate European family drama, though the film's thematic directness leaves little room for the ambiguity that elevates craft into genuine curation.
The tender specificity of how the director frames his subjects—not as inspiration-porn vessels but as people moving through ordinary, unforced moments—is the exact editorial restraint that transforms what could've been saccharine into something quietly, devastatingly human.