En tu Cabeza. Parte I: Cabra y Oveja
2016 · 17m · España
Directed by Kike Maíllo
Genres: crime, dark comedy, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, surreal
Andrea travels 35 years back in time to raise awareness about energy efficiency but cannot resist trying to change her past mistakes, getting into the head of Tomi, who with his friend Charlie is about to carry out a robbery that already went wrong once.
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A time-travel heist where the protagonist sabotages her own rescue mission by trying to micromanage a robbery-gone-wrong — it's absurdist, self-defeating, and refuses to let anyone off the hook, least of all itself. Exactly the kind of premise that makes you wonder what sane filmmaker thought this was a good idea, which is precisely why it works.
Maíllo constructs a formally intricate puzzle box where temporal logic and character motivation interweave with deliberate precision, situating itself in a lineage of European sci-fi that privileges conceptual rigor over spectacle — the editing choices around the dual timelines reveal real consideration for how information lands.
The entire film hinges on a single decision: playing the time-traveler's intervention as genuine maternal concern rather than authorial whimsy, which transforms what could've been cute-clever into something genuinely tragic and strange, made possible on a budget that forces every frame to earn its weight.