Rissaga
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Ainhoa Sansó
Genres: drama, essay film
Tones: contemplative, melancholic
Over a late-summer day on a paradisiacal island saturated with tourism, the film reflects on growing older, life's paths and nostalgia.
Picked by Margot
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It's competent melancholia about tourism and aging—the kind of formally restrained essay film that festivals eat up without question. I'd need to see something weirder lurking beneath the nostalgia to care.
Sansó's restraint here is exactly right: a 3-minute meditation on time and place that trusts the saturated island light and quiet observation to do the philosophical work, sitting squarely in the lineage of contemplative nonfiction cinema.
The decision to let the tourism infrastructure itself become the emotional weight—crowds, development, the paradox of a paradise commercialized—is what transforms a simple "getting older" premise into something that actually lands.