Guindillas Pacheco
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Pablo Olewski
Genres: comedy, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
At a casting in front of the formidable Rodrigo, Lara and Ana learn the hard way that they had better eat chillies like there is no tomorrow.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A three-minute short about two women force-fed chillies by a casting director should be disposable nonsense, but Olewski makes it genuinely unhinged—the premise flips from absurdist stunt into something that feels genuinely transgressive, and most scouts will hate that it works.
While the absurdist comedy registers, the film's structural debt to performance-art provocation and endurance-test cinema feels more provocation than considered form; it's energetic rather than rigorous.
The decision to play the discomfort completely straight—no winking, no relief cuts—transforms what could've been a gimmick into something that actually lands; that commitment to unease is what sells the bit.