Familia 2.0
2017 · 2m · España
Directed by Diego Calvi
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic
A modern family in which communication has vanished because of technology, until the little girl wakes the rest of the family from their electronic hypnosis.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's the kind of heavy-handed tech-critique that gets made every other week, and the 'child saves the family' redemption arc is exactly what consensus expects—Calvi isn't subverting the premise, he's illustrating a greeting card.
The formal restraint is there—the stillness, the framing that lets silence do work—but the film trades in the lineage of cautionary family dramas without finding its own formal argument within that tradition; it's dutiful rather than essential.
Two minutes is tight enough that the entire film hinges on Calvi's choice to keep the family's faces buried in screens until that one moment the daughter breaks the spell—and that decision to withhold their expressions until the intervention makes the reversal land with real weight rather than sentiment.