Eliminadas
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by JULIA REBATO
Tones: provocative, tense
During a work video call, a screenwriter discovers that her colleague wants to erase her name from the script they wrote together — a denunciation of how women are silenced and erased from their own work.
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The premise lands like a grenade—workplace theft of credit wrapped in a video call that's both mundane and apocalyptic—but the execution feels a touch too on-the-nose, as if the film trusts the concept more than it trusts us to feel the violation.
Rebato taps into a lineage of feminist cinema that interrogates institutional erasure, and the formal constraint of the video-call frame becomes genuinely elegant—a Zoom rectangle as both workspace and cage.
The film's entire architecture hangs on one choice: that moment when the colleague's name appears in the document in real time, and we watch it happen live rather than cut away—the decision to make us *watch* the theft unfold is what separates this from a think-piece into something that actually burrows under your skin.