Inocente
2013 · 15m · España
Directed by Álvaro Pastor
Tones: humorous, provocative
A comedy places its protagonists, with and without intellectual disabilities, on equal footing as they claim the right to live their emotional and sexual lives freely, questioning who the truly innocent ones are.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Most people would've made this precious or preachy, but Pastor swings the opposite direction—a comedy that treats disabled characters as fully realized agents of their own desire, not symbols or lessons. It's subversive precisely because it refuses to perform the emotional labor everyone expects.
The film's formal clarity—its refusal of sentimentality through crisp comedic timing and direct address—locates it in a lineage of cinema that trusts its audience to hold complexity without reassurance. A disciplined provocation that knows exactly what it's doing.
The entire film pivots on a simple structural choice: treating the question 'who is truly innocent?' not as rhetoric but as a genuine comedic premise, which forces every scene to deliver both humor and autonomy simultaneously on a shoestring budget.