Eunice
2021 · 7m · España
Directed by Dany Ruz
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, LGBTQ+
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Eunice shares doubts and certainties with Father Miguel. The film explores gender identity, faith, and the struggle to be oneself in a constrained world of masks.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A sincere confession-box drama that hits every expected beat of the faith-versus-identity story—tender, yes, but so willingly inside the emotional consensus that it feels like it's asking permission rather than demanding anything.
Ruz demonstrates formal restraint in the mise-en-scène and a thoughtful fidelity to the confessional tradition as narrative container, placing Eunice within a lineage of spiritual cinema that privileges silence and framing over exposition.
The film's entire weight rests on the decision to keep the camera still and let Eunice's voice—that specific tremor between certainty and fracture—carry the theological weight; it's a single directorial choice that transforms what could've been generic into something genuinely haunting.