La Caza
2019 · 10m · España
Directed by Amy Fajardo
Tones: contemplative, tense
After finding an unexpected opportunity, a young woman must decide how far she is willing to go to save the person she loves most from a life of suffering.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise is a moral hostage situation wrapped in genre drag—sacrifice vs. love, the usual calculus—but it doesn't seem interested in actually *subverting* that tension, just inhabiting it. Worth watching to see if Fajardo finds an angle that makes the predictable collapse, but I'm not betting on it.
A taut 10 minutes that understands the grammar of moral thriller—restraint in editing, contemplative pacing that earns its tension—and Fajardo places herself in a clear lineage of character-driven drama that prizes the unspoken choice over exposition.
The real film lives in whatever specific decision Fajardo makes about *how* the young woman arrives at her choice—a glance, a cut away from the face at the critical moment, some technical restraint that lets ambiguity breathe—and that's where I need to see her hand.