Eideann
2014 · 5m · España
Directed by Álvaro Granados
Genres: comedy, fantasy, historical
Set in the 14th century, Eideann is the story of how a fierce shepherd of the Scottish highlands and one of the sheep of his flock become the pioneers of one of the greatest entertainments of our days.
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A Scottish shepherd and a sheep inventing modern entertainment in the 14th century—it's absurdist alternate history that shouldn't work but somehow does, and that's exactly why it's here: premise so wonderfully unhinged that the whole thing becomes a rebuke to predictable storytelling.
Granados positions this whimsical absurdism within a specific historical frame, and the formal restraint of the five-minute structure feels deliberate—a comic vignette that knows its own place in the lineage of tall tales and Scottish folklore.
What makes this work isn't the concept but the commitment to it: the decision to play the sheep as a genuine dramatic participant, not a punchline, grounds the whole fantastical premise and turns a one-line joke into something that actually breathes.