Operación RAE
2020 · 6m · España
Directed by Borja Álvarez
Genres: action, comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, humorous, theatrical
A special operations group assaults the Royal Spanish Academy with the mission of finding a high-value target that the institution keeps hidden, in a humorous adventure about inclusive language, breaking stereotypes and making invisible disabilities visible.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A spec-ops raid on a language academy to expose disability invisibility—this is exactly the kind of premise that makes you laugh and then realize you're actually watching something subversive about who gets to define normalcy. Most scouts would see 'comedy about the RAE' and move on; Felix sees a Trojan horse for real cultural argument.
Operación RAE sits cleverly in the tradition of European political satire, where formal absurdism (the mock-military framing) serves as the vehicle for institutional critique—though the tonal balance between action-comedy spectacle and its thematic payload feels slightly tilted toward entertainment over the considered rigor we'd expect from this lineage.
The decision to play the whole thing deadpan and operatic—treating a bureaucratic absurdity with genuine action-film gravitas—is the single choice that makes this work; it's what transforms a clever idea into something that actually *lands* with both humor and weight on a six-minute budget.