La pureza
2018 · 5m · España
Directed by Pedro Vikingo
Genres: coming-of-age, documentary
Tones: contemplative, tender
An intimate small documentary follows the daily lives and dreams of five children, approaching who they are and what the most important change in their lives may bring.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A five-minute doc about kids' dreams sounds like the safest possible festival circuit play, but if Vikingo's pulled off something genuinely strange in that premise—some formal rupture or tonal left turn—I'm curious enough to look.
Intimate coming-of-age documentary sits squarely in a lineage stretching back through Wiseman and the Maysles; the restraint and tenderness here suggest a filmmaker thinking carefully about observation and revelation.
The real test is whether Vikingo made a formal choice—in structure, in how the children's voices are layered, in editing pace—that transforms five minutes of dailiness into something that *feels* inevitable rather than gentle.