NO ME GUSTA
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Nasira Mohamed Salec
Genres: drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, provocative
Two girls are spending time scrolling through social media when they come across the horror that Palestinians are living in Gaza.
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Most shorts about social media are either preachy or toothless, but NO ME GUSTA refuses the safe lane—it lets the banality of scrolling become the collision point, and doesn't look away from the obscenity of that contrast. The premise should be insufferable; instead it's a clean provocation that actually lands.
Mohamed Salec's essay-film sensibility sits in conversation with the essay-documentary lineage, though the three-minute constraint asks whether the form can sustain its own argument—the tonal register is contemplative, but one wonders if the structure earns its weight or simply asserts it.
The decision to keep the social media interface as a visual anchor rather than cutting away from it grounds the entire piece; that refusal to aestheticize away from the mundane scroll is what makes the collision between casual consumption and atrocity feel genuinely disorienting rather than rhetorical.