No juegues conmigo
2018 · 6m · España
Directed by Chema Juárez
Genres: animation, coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, tense
An animation for pupils aged 10 to 14 follows a student whose negative influence spreads through a class into harassment and discrimination against a classmate. The classroom scenario shows the danger of failing to confront a bully.
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A PSA about bullying masquerading as animation—exactly the kind of well-intentioned moral lesson that makes Felix's skin crawl, because the premise announces its thesis before frame one and never thinks to subvert it.
Juárez works in a clear lineage of didactic animation for youth audiences, and the formal rigor of showing contagion through visual metaphor situates this confidently within that tradition, even if the message feels settled.
The animatic choice to visualize social infection spreading through the classroom—how the visual language itself becomes the vehicle for depicting peer pressure rather than simply narrating it—is what transforms an educational brief into something that actually lands.