Ositos
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Richard Osés, Javi Cabanas
Genres: dark comedy, mystery, thriller
Tones: darkly comic, surreal, tense
A sniper. A mother and a daughter enjoying themselves at an amusement park. Nothing is what it seems — not even the little girl's favorite stuffed animal.
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The scouts
Three minutes of narrative judo—you're braced for sniper-thriller brutalism and instead get a stuffed animal that rewrites what you're actually watching. The kind of premise that makes consensus programmers nervous, which is exactly why it works.
A formally precise inversion of genre expectation, structured with the clarity of a magic trick's reveal; the tonal control between threat and absurdity suggests directors who understand how to sit a film within the tradition of darkly comic suspense without genuflecting to it.
The entire film hinges on one production choice—what that stuffed animal actually is—and Osés and Cabanas commit to it so completely that a three-minute runtime suddenly feels like they've made something you can't unsee or second-guess.