La granja
2011 · 21m · España
Directed by Ignacio Lasierra
Genres: horror, mystery, thriller
Civil Guards Joaquín and Eva are on duty during village festivities when Paco arrives at the station warning that something strange is happening at his farm.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A rural Spanish thriller that inverts every procedural expectation—two bored cops become witnesses to something that won't fit into paperwork, and the film refuses to explain what's happening at the farm, which is exactly why it works. Most scouts would want closure; Felix wants the unsettling remainder.
Lasierra situates this firmly in the Spanish genre tradition while maintaining formal restraint—the editing resists sensationalism, the mise-en-scène recalls folk horror lineage, and the mystery itself becomes a study in institutional inadequacy rather than a puzzle to solve.
The entire film hinges on a single decision: keeping the camera fixed on the officers' growing incomprehension rather than cutting to what's actually happening at the farm, a restraint that transforms a conventional setup into something genuinely disquieting on almost no budget.