Mi mejor amiga - Annie & Carola
2018 · 4m · España
Directed by Myriam Ballesteros
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age, sci-fi
Tones: darkly comic, whimsical
Carola, a studious girl with no social skills, builds herself a clone friend to share her love of science and stay safe from the teenage world she fears — until an accident turns the clone into a wild, uninhibited friend who drags her into everything she feared.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise *should* be a thin Disney Channel afterschool special—lonely girl makes a friend—but Ballesteros perverts it into something genuinely unsettling, where the clone becomes the id the protagonist was too afraid to claim; most people will miss how subversive that inversion actually is.
A playful riff on the doppelgänger tradition that understands its own lineage—part Frankenstein anxiety, part *Weird Science* pastiche—but the execution feels slight, the tonal shifts between whimsy and dark comedy never quite settling into formal coherence.
The entire film hinges on one choice: making Carola's fear of her clone's wildness feel like longing rather than horror, and the performance captures that hairline fracture so precisely that a 4-minute setup becomes genuinely moving—economical sci-fi done right.