El hueco
2019 · 5m
Directed by Marina Bianchi
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Two sisters share a free slot and a good bottle of wine, but their forced, reproach-laden meetings keep straining a relationship that grows more damaged each time.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Two sisters drinking wine and disappointing each other sounds like the setup to a thousand Sundance submissions, but I'd skip this one—it knows exactly what it is and has no interest in breaking the mold.
Bianchi's restraint is the whole point: the film sits in the gap between what these sisters want to say and what they actually say, and that silence accumulates with each perfectly weighted scene—it's a meditation on estrangement that trusts its own formal architecture completely.
The crucial choice here is the wine itself—how it moves between them, how it gets refilled, never emptied—a single prop that becomes the language for everything unsaid, doing the emotional work that dialogue refuses to do.