¡Salud!
2018 · 7m · España
Directed by Diego López Villar, Marina Bianchi
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age
Tones: darkly comic, humorous
Eighteen-year-old David, used to always getting his way, has failed several subjects, and on report-card day he plans to delete the email with his grades before his parents get home.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The setup screams indie coming-of-age cliché—privileged kid, grades, parental anxiety—but the execution pivots into something genuinely unsettling about entitlement and digital erasure that most shorts are too timid to sit with.
A cleanly constructed comedy of manners that understands the grammar of family-unit tension; the formal restraint of the premise allows the dark comedy to accumulate weight without sentiment.
The genius here is probably a single moment—the decision to make the central conflict not about grades but about the act of deletion itself, which transforms a tired premise into something about complicity and the illusion of control that a 7-minute film shouldn't be able to pull off on this budget.