Salió con prisa hacia la montaña
2017 · 10m · España
Directed by Pablo Hernando
Genres: drama, experimental, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, mythic, surreal
In a science-fiction world where animals exist only in television documentaries, a man receives the call of a primal nature and hurries toward the mountain.
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A sci-fi premise that inverts the expected—not aliens invading Earth, but a man drawn *toward* extinction, answering an animal call that shouldn't exist in his sterilized documentary world. It's exactly the kind of subversive mythmaking that makes you sit with the wrongness of it.
Hernando's restraint here feels deliberate and earned, positioning the film within a lineage of contemplative speculative cinema that trusts negative space; the surreal tone operates through formal discipline rather than spectacle, letting the absence of animals speak louder than their presence ever could.
The decision to use the mountain as both literal destination and psychological pull—never showing us what he finds, only his compulsion toward it—transforms a high-concept premise into something intimate and singular on a minimal budget.