Dromedario
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Rodrigo Barbarena
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age, satire
Tones: humorous, provocative
Two young students question what they are taught at school, wondering why useless facts fill their classes while learning to use AI to make life easier is never on the syllabus.
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Finally—a short that weaponizes the obvious and makes it feel dangerous, flipping the tired "kids vs. outdated education" sermon into something actually subversive by having them weaponize the very tool institutions fear. Barbarena gets that the real provocation isn't asking the question; it's letting them answer it.
A competent satire that lands its critique, though it operates in a fairly well-established lineage of youth-versus-system narratives without the formal or tonal innovation that would distinguish it in that tradition—the comedy is broad where it might have been precise.
The decision to frame AI not as villain or savior but as a mundane utility they're casually better at using than their teachers—that casual competence flip is what makes the three minutes work, and it's earned through restraint rather than lecturing.