En tu Cabeza. Parte III: Suegro y suegra
2016 · 13m · España
Directed by Alberto Ruiz Rojo
In 2052, Andrea travels into the minds of people in the past to raise awareness about energy saving and efficiency. She also uses the trips for personal reasons, entering the minds of her in-laws to prevent her past self from making regretted mistakes.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A Spanish sci-fi comedy that weaponizes time-travel mind-hopping for PSA messaging and marriage repair—so deliberately, unironically absurd that it loops back around to something genuinely strange and worth your attention. Most scouts would dismiss this as YouTube whimsy; Felix smells the subversion.
The formal conceit—nested perspectives across temporal layers—recalls experimental sci-fi lineage, though the execution prioritizes comedic whimsy over the kind of rigorous editing control that would elevate it into the conversation with Marker or Ruiz.
The decision to play the in-law invasion scenes with such earnest absurdity, never winking at the audience or softening the strangeness, is what keeps this from collapsing into sketch comedy—that tonal commitment on a modest budget is the whole film.