¿QUÉ PASA?
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Vastyan Ponce
Genres: drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Whether in the most trivial moment of the day or the most decisive in years, the mobile phone is always there — and this film captures the dissociation of hours spent on it, when important conversations slip by unnoticed.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
It's a phone-addiction film, which is basically the default crisis narrative now—but Ponce at least refuses to moralize about it, just lets the dissociation sit there, uncomfortable and unresolved, which is more honest than the usual hand-wringing.
The formal restraint here—how the editing mirrors the fragmentation of attention, how conversations bleed into scroll-time—positions this firmly in a lineage of structural cinema grappling with modern distraction, though the premise itself risks feeling like a well-worn observation.
The singular choice that unlocks this: the decision to treat phone-scrolling and human conversation with identical visual weight and rhythm, so you can't tell which one is supposed to matter, which forces you to feel the numbness rather than judge it.