En la luna es más fácil
2025 · 3m
Directed by Angela Sánchez
Genres: adventure, comedy, coming-of-age
Tones: humorous, tender, whimsical
Two friends, Pepa and Isabel, embark on a small great odyssey that tests their patience, friendship and sense of humour, discovering that the simplest challenges can feel like trips to another planet.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise wants to be whimsical-adventure-teaches-friendship, which is exactly the kind of well-intentioned boilerplate that puts me to sleep — unless Sánchez is doing something genuinely weird with it, and from here I can't tell if she is.
A modest three minutes that understands the coming-of-age-via-small-journey tradition, though without seeing the film itself, it's unclear whether Sánchez adds formal invention or settles into the expected rhythms of that lineage.
The real tell will be how Sánchez frames the "simplest challenges" — whether it's a specific editing choice, a moment of genuine awkwardness in the performance, or a sound design decision that recontextualizes what could've been stock material into something that actually *feels* like another planet.