Kinder Sorpresa

2017 · 9m · España

Directed by Alexis Garduño, Javi J. Palo

Genres: dark comedy, drama, surrealism

Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal

After a family meal, an eighteen-year-old girl gives her parents happy news. The announcement triggers a chain of events that ends in an incomprehensible, surreal dead end.

Picked by Felix

The scouts

A family dinner announcement that collapses into pure surreal wreckage—the kind of premise that makes you lean forward because you have no idea what you're about to witness, and the film knows exactly how to weaponize that confusion against your expectations.

Felix

The formal restraint here is striking: the directors hold the domestic frame steady while reality fractures beneath it, a structural choice that recalls the uncanny domesticity of Buñuel but executed with its own considered control.

Margot

There's a single tonal pivot—the moment the announcement stops landing as news and starts becoming something else entirely—where the whole film's dark comedy machinery clicks into place, and everything that follows feels inevitable because of that one calculated shift.

Zoe