No era mía, pero me la comí.

2025 · 3m · España

Directed by Miguel Villena

Genres: comedy, mystery, satire

Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous

Mónica, a young exam candidate, discovers that one of her two flatmates has eaten the potato omelette she had saved for lunch, and she will stop at nothing to unmask the culprit.

Picked by Felix

The scouts

A three-minute Spanish comedy that treats a stolen tortilla like a crime procedural—absurdist, escalating, completely unapologetic about its premise. This is exactly the kind of "wait, WHAT?" that makes people forget they're supposed to be watching something "important."

Felix

The film's structural economy recalls the precision of Spanish comedic shorts and early Ealing farce, though its darkly comic escalation feels more indebted to contemporary absurdist satire than classical tradition—a clean execution of an unconventional genre hybrid.

Margot

The reveal of how far Mónica will go to unmask a flatmate over food is a single tonal choice that transforms what could've been a sketch into something genuinely unsettling, and that calibration—balancing domestic comedy with genuine menace—is what makes three minutes feel complete.

Zoe