(En)terrados
2009 · 11m · España
Directed by Àlex Lora
Genres: drama, experimental, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
In the near future, finding a flat in the metropolis is no longer possible; three characters try to find their place in a close dystopia of impossible interaction and poetic escape.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A sci-fi housing crisis film that *could* be preachy, but instead opts for visual abstraction and refusal—it's more interested in *feeling* the claustrophobia than explaining the politics, which is exactly the kind of subversive restraint most sci-fi shorts lack.
(En)terrados sits confidently in the lineage of structural cinema and Tarkovskian pacing; the formal discipline—how it composes emptiness, how it lets silence do narrative work—marks this as a work conscious of what poetic cinema can achieve when it resists spectacle.
The decision to treat the cramped living space as an almost architectural puzzle rather than a social problem shifts everything: suddenly the camera's geometric framing becomes the story, and that single formal choice—treating desperation as spatial constraint—carries the whole weight of the film.