LUNÁTICO

2025 · 3m · España

Directed by Jeffrey Lunaris

Genres: drama, fantasy, mystery

Tones: contemplative, surreal

A mysterious boy wakes up on a beach with an enigmatic task to complete.

Picked by Zoe

The scouts

A boy wakes up with a mystery—standard fantasy setup, except Lunaris seems genuinely uninterested in explaining anything, which is either brilliant refusal or beautiful laziness, and I genuinely can't tell which yet.

Felix

The surreal register recalls a lineage from Cocteau through contemporary art cinema, though the 3-minute constraint leaves the formal argument half-articulated—promising more than it delivers on craft deliberation.

Margot

That opening moment—the specific quality of the boy's disorientation, how the beach light lands—suggests Lunaris knows exactly which gesture carries the whole film's weight, and he trusts it to do the work a cheaper production can't afford to explain.

Zoe