Para ayer
2018 · 6m · España
Directed by Celia Galán
Tones: darkly comic, tense
An emerging production company pitches at an award-winning advertising agency, and after a meeting full of challenging briefs and impossible deadlines the filmmakers must decide how far they will go to land the job.
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A pitch-meeting satire that could've been toothless corporate comedy, except Galán weaponizes the format itself—turning the claustrophobia of selling out into something genuinely unsettling and hilarious. It's a film that knows exactly what it's subverting and does it with a blade.
The film's rigor lies in its structural discipline: each impossible brief tightens the moral screws with escalating precision, situating itself squarely in a lineage of institutional satire while maintaining formal control over tone and pacing.
What elevates this beyond a sketch is the decision to play it almost deadpan—the performances never wink, the editing never cuts away to let us feel superior, and that restraint transforms a pitch-room power dynamic into something genuinely claustrophobic on a six-minute budget.