Soleado, exterior
2004 · 15m · España
Directed by Diego Taboada
Genres: dark comedy, drama, fantasy
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, surreal
Nacho and Paz have just moved into their new home, a sunny exterior flat; when Paz is left alone, things happen — she has the impression the house wants to expel her and keep Nacho, who has fallen in love with those walls.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A house as a sentient rival for a man's affection—most scouts would punt this as whimsy, but Taboada commits to the premise's queasy logic without winking, and that refusal to undercut the absurdity is exactly what makes it work.
The film sits comfortably in a lineage of domestic uncanny (Polanski, early Buñuel), and Taboada's restraint with the surrealism—letting dread accumulate through performance and negative space rather than spectacle—marks a filmmaker conscious of his tradition.
The decision to keep Paz's expulsion physical rather than psychological—actual walls shifting, spaces narrowing—turns what could be a predictable betrayal narrative into something tactile and unsettling, and that commitment to the concrete weird over the symbolic does all the heavy lifting.