Hazme un sandwich
2019 · 3m · Canadá
Directed by Denman Hatch, Matt Hamilton
Genres: dark comedy, drama
A wife lives in constant disorder with a husband who endlessly demands that she make him sandwiches, and the question is how long she can endure his abuse before she breaks.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A three-minute domestic abuse allegory built entirely on the absurdist repetition of sandwich-making demands—it's exactly the kind of premise that sounds ridiculous until you realize it's weaponizing mundanity to nail something true about control, and mainstream festival crowds will probably miss the teeth entirely.
The film understands itself as operating in a lineage of minimalist domestic drama (Haneke-adjacent in its restraint), and while the sandwich framing borders on gimmick, the formal control of what remains unseen—the escalation lived through editing and performance rather than spectacle—shows architectural awareness.
The entire film pivots on a single recurring *sound choice*—the way the sandwich request lands each time, slightly different in tone and urgency—which transforms what could be a one-note joke into something about erosion and fracture, proof that constraint can sharpen rather than limit.