No Estoy Loca
2025 · 3m · Venezuela
Directed by Luis Cerasa
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, fantasy
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
Luz, a 13-year-old girl with the gift of seeing the dead, argues with her deceased mother, who asks her to convince her father about the tragic accident in which she died.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The ghost-mother-as-reluctant-messenger angle feels like it's been done to death in indie supernatural drama, and even the Spanish-language setting doesn't quite crack the mold — Cerasa's playing it too straight, too earnest, when the premise is begging for something weirder.
There's a lineage here worth noting — the melancholic ghost narrative echoing Pialat and early Erice — but the film doesn't quite earn its formal restraint; the three-minute runtime feels like a constraint rather than a choice, leaving the emotional architecture underdeveloped.
That 13-year-old's delivery in the argument scenes — the way she shifts between defending her mother and resenting her — is precise enough to anchor the whole surreal premise, and it's that performance choice that transforms what could be overwrought into something genuinely tender.