Revelación
2019 · 19m · España
Directed by Juan José Bors
Genres: dark comedy, drama, satire
Tones: dark, darkly comic, provocative
Based on real events, reason and faith collide in a tale between homage and parody of religious cinema: the abuse of power and the exploitation of innocence mark the relationships of characters faced with their contradictions, adults who manipulate children and children who manipulate adults.
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The scouts
A film that weaponizes the language of pious cinema against itself—trading reverence for provocation, turning the machinery of faith-based storytelling into a Trojan horse for something genuinely unsettling about power and complicity. This is exactly the kind of premise that makes most programmers nervous, which is precisely why it works.
Bors demonstrates formal sophistication in his navigation of tonal registers, threading satire through the visual and narrative conventions of religious drama to create productive friction between homage and critique. The restraint required to sustain that ambiguity across 19 minutes suggests a filmmaker aware of the lineage he's interrogating.
The casting choice to let children carry the manipulation dynamic—rather than simply be victimized by it—is the decision that reframes everything: suddenly the film isn't didactic about exploitation, it's anthropological, and that single inversion of perspective transforms what could've been a sermon into something genuinely strange and alive.