En tu Cabeza. Parte II: Milagros y Remedios
2016 · 15m · España
Directed by Borja Cobeaga
Genres: drama, fantasy, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, surreal
In 2052, time travel is used to enter people's minds and convince them to preserve natural resources, but Andrea travels to 2016 also to amend her own past mistakes, entering the head of desperate estate agent Vicente and of tormented neighbour Milagros.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Time travel as therapy, sci-fi as a vehicle for personal regret instead of paradox—Cobeaga's got the audacity to make the premise *smaller*, not bigger, and somehow that's where the real weirdness lives. Most scouts would see 2052 and expect explosions; he gives us a desperate estate agent and a neighbor's guilt, which is infinitely stranger.
Cobeaga situates this sequel within a considered tradition of speculative cinema that treats technology as emotional archaeology rather than spectacle, and the formal restraint—the way surrealism here serves introspection rather than visual excess—marks a filmmaker aware of his own lineage and purposefully working against it.
The decision to compress an entire emotional arc into the architecture of *entering someone else's mind* rather than resolving it externally is the move that elevates this—Cobeaga trusts that constraint enough to make the sci-fi element disappear, leaving only the specific ache of wanting to fix what you've already lived.