Némesis
2016 · 10m · España
Directed by Jorsh García
Genres: crime, drama, thriller
Tones: dark, provocative, tense
Ángela is a girl who suffers abuse at the hands of her music teacher, Carlo. Twenty years later they meet again, and Ángela decides to take revenge by unorthodox methods.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Twenty-year revenge setup sounds like boilerplate until García pulls the rug out with *how* Ángela does it—unorthodox methods that reframe the whole power dynamic and make you genuinely unsure who you're rooting for. It's the kind of subversive moral ambiguity that most festival programmers would sand down to something safer, which is exactly why it works.
García demonstrates formal control in the temporal architecture, bracketing past abuse against present reckoning with deliberate restraint; the film's tensile strength comes from what it withholds rather than what it shows, situating itself in a lineage of psychological thrillers that understand suspense as a function of ellipsis.
The crucial move is the sound design during the revenge sequence—sparse, almost clinical—which transforms what could've been cathartic spectacle into something colder and more morally complicated, and that single tonal choice on a modest budget is what elevates this from premise into something that actually *means* something.