Más de lo que ves
2020 · 3m · España
Directed by Ángelo Moreno Sánchez
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
A woman of about 30 does not understand why society treats her as if she were a little girl. Sometimes marginalised or treated like a freak, she understands that the change is not in her but in the rest of the people.
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The premise sounds like a PSA until you realize the film isn't interested in your sympathy—it's too busy interrogating who gets to define 'grown up' in the first place, which is genuinely unsettling in ways most shorts don't risk.
A formally restrained meditation on social perception that sits in conversation with the coming-of-age tradition while quietly refusing its consolations; the economy of three minutes and a single perspective makes the invisibility of systemic othering feel almost architectural.
What makes this work is the decision to stay entirely in her perceptual space—no cutaways to judgmental faces, no external validation—which means every tender moment becomes an indictment of how we default to infantilizing what we don't immediately recognize.