Microguerra
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Miguel Angel Sanchez / Jose Quiroz Lozano
Genres: action, comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, humorous, theatrical
Lucía and Luiss, two flatmates, argue over who gets to use the microwave first, and the domestic tension escalates into an epic duel with ridiculous rules, an invisible jury and weapons made of frozen food.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A microwave dispute that mutates into frozen-food swordplay with invisible juries—this is the kind of escalation absurdism that makes you laugh because it refuses to apologize for its own logic. Most scouts would call it a gimmick; it's actually a perfect subversion of domestic drama that takes its own ridiculousness seriously.
The theatrical staging and escalating rule-construction show command of comedic form, though the satire of everyday conflict through genre pastiche feels more novelty than lineage—it's clever within its constraints, but doesn't interrogate the tradition it's playing with.
The decision to arm them with *frozen food* as weapons—utilitarian, absurd, and perfectly visible to camera—is the single choice that makes this work; it's the kind of lateral thinking that turns a three-minute sketch into something with real shape and humor on a micro budget.