Entre Líneas
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Natalia G. Collazos
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, family
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tense
In a house ruled by order and control, Óscar, a teenager overwhelmed by his father's unattainable expectations, plans his escape — while Gastón, a perfectionist father, goes about his daily routine unaware of the heartbreaking news that awaits him and will mark the breaking point of their family relationship.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
This is competent family-drama furniture—a father-son rift played exactly as expected, with nothing here that makes you reconsider what the form can do or say. The premise announces itself so clearly there's no room for real subversion.
Collazos demonstrates formal control in the spatial choreography of domestic constraint and the precise emotional architecture of two people living in the same house but utterly separate—the kind of intimate mise-en-scène that recalls the Latin American lineage of family portraiture from Fuentes and Ripstein onward.
The real work here is likely in the editing rhythm between Óscar's secret deliberation and Gastón's oblivious routine—that counterpoint choice is what transforms a familiar premise into something that lands, making the inevitable collision feel inevitable and earned rather than scripted.