Nanny
2021 · 7m · España
Directed by Dani Zarandieta
Lola is called at the last minute to take care of Leo. The little one is asleep and Lola is about to watch a film when the baby monitor starts doing strange things.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Everyone expects the baby monitor to be haunted, so Zarandieta's real move is making you *doubt* your own perception—is it supernatural or is Lola just losing it?—which lands somewhere between folk horror and psychological paranoia that most genre shorts are too nervous to commit to.
The film's formal restraint—its refusal to show us what's actually happening, relying instead on the grammar of the monitor's visual degradation and sound design—positions it within a lineage of slow-burn dread that values suggestion over spectacle, echoing a certain rigorous Spanish gothic sensibility.
That baby monitor becomes something other than a plot device through sheer sound design choice: the way interference and static gradually colonize the audio space forces you to *listen* for meaning in noise, and that single decision transforms a high-concept premise into something genuinely unsettling on a budget.