No tengo tiempo para eso
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Gino Rodríguez
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
With an old van and no time to lose, a single father struggles to overcome his financial difficulties so he can get his daughter back.
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The premise is almost aggressively conventional—struggling single dad, custody stakes, economic desperation—but Rodriguez seems aware of it, which is either the film's secret weapon or its biggest gamble; either way, I'm not convinced it pays off.
There's a restraint here that suggests deliberate formal choice rather than budget limitation, and the three-minute constraint forces a compression that recalls the economy of canonical short drama, though whether Rodríguez sustains that rigor across the full runtime remains the question.
Three minutes to land a custody story without sentiment requires one precise decision to work—and if it's in the editing rhythm, the sound design, or how Rodriguez frames the van itself as character rather than prop, that's where this either transcends its familiar premise or doesn't.