MUJER
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Malcolm Riascos Bazán
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, provocative, tender
One ordinary night, Lucía gets ready to go out with her friends, but what should be a simple outing becomes a mirror of the reality that millions of women live: the fear, the constant precaution, and the silent struggle to feel safe.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's a competent anxiety-mirror about women's safety—which, fine, important subject—but Riascos plays it completely straight when the premise *begs* for formal subversion: where's the distortion, the genre rupture, the thing that makes you uncomfortable in a *new* way?
A disciplined contemplation of gendered precarity that sits comfortably in the lineage of feminist short cinema, with considered pacing and visual restraint; the craft serves the argument, though it doesn't quite transcend the form's expected gestures.
The specificity lives in how Riascos uses the mirror—not as metaphor but as spatial device, forcing the viewer into the frame with Lucía rather than letting us observe her fear from safety; that single compositional choice reframes the whole piece from statement into shared experience.