Estoy bien
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Maeve Balsera Macías
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
A teenage girl faces the obstacles of youth while also having to carry adult problems, as the people around her settle for her simple 'I'm fine' without wondering what lies behind her behavior.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's a competent portrait of teenage dissociation, sure, but the premise—girl says she's fine, adults don't push back—is basically the textbook coming-of-age shorthand at this point; Balsera Macías needed to find the weird angle that makes this *not* feel like every other melancholic teen drama.
There's a clarity of intention here that sits in conversation with the lineage of intimate adolescent portraiture, and the restraint in not over-explaining the gap between 'estoy bien' and internal collapse shows formal discipline worth attending to.
The power lives in whatever Balsera Macías chose to *not* show—the specific edit or performance choice that lets the audience feel the lie in that simple phrase rather than be told it, turning a familiar premise into something that lands because of one decision that makes it singular.