En directo
2015 · 15m · España
Directed by Wenceslao Scyzoryk
Genres: drama, satire, thriller
Tones: dark, provocative, tense
On the day of their eviction, a family without resources allows a reality show to broadcast their story live, but what seemed a dream to save their home turns into a horrible nightmare.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A reality show as a trap, desperation as entertainment, the camera itself becoming the villain—this is the kind of premise that makes you uncomfortable because it's *true*, and Scyzoryk doesn't flinch from the ugliness of it. Most scouts would shy away from something this caustic about media and poverty, which is exactly why it matters.
The film's formal restraint—its willingness to let the broadcast frame do the moral work rather than editorializing—places it in a lineage of politically rigorous European cinema that trusts the viewer's intelligence. The tension between documentary directness and scripted nightmare is rigorously maintained.
The decision to keep us *inside* the live broadcast rather than cut away from it is what makes this land: we're trapped in real-time with the family, no escape hatch, no post-production mercy, which transforms a social satire into something genuinely claustrophobic and sick.