La Percha
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Roberto Mora, Laura Zurrón
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
Antonio devises a way to open a car with a coat hanger, but his plan unravels when Rafa, his neighbour and the car's real owner, appears, turning an improvised theft into an impossible tangle.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A three-minute short that takes the most banal setup—petty car theft—and weaponizes it into absurdist collision comedy; the fact that it treats the encounter with the actual owner as a logic puzzle rather than a moral reckoning is exactly the kind of subversive refusal other scouts would miss.
Mora and Zurrón demonstrate formal control in their escalation of a simple premise into structured chaos, anchoring what could be sitcom fodder in a tonal precision that recalls the genre-aware European short tradition—though the film's commitment to irresolution over resolution puts it slightly at odds with classical comedy architecture.
The turning point lives entirely in the editing: the moment Rafa appears and the pacing shifts from scheming montage to real-time entanglement, a single cut that redefines what we're watching, and suddenly a micro-budget two-hander becomes a study in conversational geometry.