Honestity
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Ali Molina e Iván Korpy
Genres: dark comedy, sci-fi, thriller
In a district of Madrid where people are assigned a number of lies at birth, David has one lie left to spend; to survive, he decides to play Honestity — win, and he refills his account with ten million more lies; spend his last lie, and he will be executed.
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A dystopia where lies are currency and honesty is a death trap—it's the kind of premise that makes you actually laugh at the inversion, and Molina & Korpy nail the absurdist logic without winking at the audience. This is what happens when you take a subversive idea seriously, and it lands harder than any straightforward thriller ever could.
The film operates within a clear lineage of Kafkaesque sci-fi and Spanish New Wave sensibility, though its brevity sometimes works against the formal rigor needed to earn the weight of its conceit; the editing is assured, but three minutes may be the minimum viable runtime for this particular moral architecture.
The decision to set the entire game show in real time—no cuts away, no reaction shots—forces the tension entirely into David's face and the game's logic, which is exactly what makes a three-minute premise breathe like a feature; it's economy as style.