ROL
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Óscar Reyes García
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: darkly comic, provocative
A group of friends sits down to play a role-playing game, but the fantasies they imagine have nothing to do with fairies or dragons.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A three-minute ambush: friends gather for what looks like D&D night, but the fantasies they conjure are anything but escapist—this is role-play as psychological X-ray, and it's exactly the kind of premise that makes you realize what everyone else got wrong about the genre.
Reyes García's economy of form recalls the tradition of chamber pieces that use constraint as refinement; the editing discipline required to establish tonal whiplash in 180 seconds—moving from mundane setup to moral vertigo—suggests a filmmaker aware of how dark comedy operates in miniature.
The entire film hinges on what the camera *doesn't* show us—just the faces reacting in real time as each fantasy is named aloud—and that single formal choice of staying on the room instead of cutting to imagination transforms cheap shock value into something genuinely unsettling.