Nonna
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Aníbal del Casar Regalado
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
In a brief thirty-second encounter, loyalty and silences that weigh more than words reveal family bonds as firm as old codes of honour.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Three minutes of grandmother and grandchild saying almost nothing—it's the kind of restraint that could be insufferable, except Regalado somehow makes silence feel like the entire point, which is either genius or a very expensive way to make people feel things about family codes they'd rather not examine.
A film that understands the weight of the unspoken sits squarely in a lineage of European family portraiture—think early Koreeda or Haneke's quieter moments—where a thirty-second exchange becomes a master class in what editing and duration can convey about generational loyalty.
The real architecture here is the decision to compress thirty seconds of mutual recognition into three minutes of held presence; whatever Regalado chose to cut *away* from rather than show becomes the film's true subject.