La propina
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by IVO ERASMO
At a diamond auction, an ambitious cook plans to steal the gem from a rich magnate in a luxury marina — but Fermín, the not-very-bright waiter, is bound to mess it up.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A heist-comedy premise that gets its juice from *incompetence* rather than cleverness—the magnate, the cook, the bumbling waiter all canceling each other out in a three-minute spiral. It's got that subversive DNA where the plot exists mainly to watch people fail in increasingly absurd configurations, and that's exactly the kind of thing conventional scouts sleep on.
The construction here is economical and precise—three characters, one location, a single MacGuffin—executed with the kind of formal restraint you'd expect from someone aware of the heist-comedy lineage, from Rififi through the Coen Brothers' smaller moments. It knows what it is and doesn't overreach.
What lifts this above a straightforward premise is the decision to make the waiter not hapless but genuinely dim, the through-line of the whole thing; it reframes every beat from 'will the heist work' to 'what stupidity will derail it next,' and that one characterological choice turns a three-minute sketch into something with narrative momentum on no budget.