Hambriento
2018 · 5m · España
Directed by Gianpierre Yovera Infanzon, Iván Torres Salvador, Julián Andrés Conde Martín, Mario González Serrano, Pablo González Diéguez
Genres: animation, horror, thriller
A beast's growl interrupts a young mother's sleep, and terrified, she goes to investigate the horrible sound, discovering an evil monster lurking in the darkness of her home.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A five-person Peruvian collective making a creature-feature that *looks* like it cost millions but actually subverts every jump-scare orthodoxy by committing fully to the mother's agency—she doesn't scream, she *hunts*—which is exactly the kind of genre inversion that gets dismissed until someone like me reminds everyone why it matters.
The formal discipline here is striking: a tightly orchestrated sound design and animation craft that recalls the European horror-animation lineage (Fantastic Planet, early Švankmajer) while the five-director structure suggests a collective model worth situating in contemporary Latin American cinema practice.
What sells this is the decision to animate the mother's *face* with such specific micro-expressions of calculation rather than panic—that single choice to treat her as a thinking predator rather than a victim reframes the entire five minutes and proves you don't need budget to make that distinction register.