Road movie
2018 · 4m · España
Directed by David Moreno Maroñas
Genres: mystery, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: dark, melancholic, tense
A couple crosses a desolate landscape by car, in a desperate flight to escape a city in which their friends and acquaintances are mysteriously disappearing.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A sci-fi thriller that refuses to explain itself—no exposition dump, no reveal, just two people running from a plague of absence. It's the kind of premise that makes you angry it exists because you can't stop thinking about it.
Maroñas positions this squarely in the tradition of Kieślowski's constraint-based mystery cinema, where formal restraint becomes philosophical statement; the editing rhythm mirrors the couple's psychological unraveling with careful, considered precision.
The film's entire power lives in that choice to keep the camera locked on the car and landscape—refusing the close-up, refusing intimacy—which transforms what could be melodrama into something genuinely unsettling on a budget that has no room for spectacle.