FISH MONEY
2026 · 3m
Directed by Gen Funes
Genres: adventure, comedy, fantasy
Two sisters fight a giant fish beast for a sweet cash reward.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A three-minute sisters-vs-fish-beast comedy that could've been a forgettable YouTube sketch instead becomes genuinely unhinged—the absurdist commitment to a premise that shouldn't work is exactly the kind of thing everyone else passes on and then wonders why they didn't see it first.
The whimsy here risks collapsing into mere silliness, though Funes' control of tone and pacing suggests a filmmaker aware of the genre lineage she's playing with—whether the formal rigor extends to the visual language or dissolves into the premise itself will determine if this is craft or just novelty.
The magic is probably in how Funes escalates the stakes between the sisters' dynamic and the actual monster threat within three minutes—that one decision about which relationship to prioritize in the frame could be what transforms a high-concept gag into something with real character weight.