Solo Una Noche
2018 · 17m · España
Directed by Daniel Ruiz, Alejandro Santaella, Sara Avilés, Inma Diéguez, Ángel Reche, Jaime Rodríguez, Ana Fasolato, Juan Carlos Montes, Ana Peregil
Genres: horror, mystery, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
Desperate Blanca turns to Esther, a renowned medium who stumbles onto something she has never seen before and digs into Blanca's dark family past, suspecting her client has not told the whole truth.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Nine directors on a 17-minute thriller about a medium uncovering family secrets sounds like it should be a disaster, but the fact that it *isn't* almost makes it worse — too competent, too aware of its own genre beats, zero appetite for actual weirdness.
A chamber piece that treats the séance table as a confessional booth, tightening the screw between client and practitioner with the precision of classical dramaturgy; the collaborative direction suggests a script refined through deliberate hands, each voice sharpening the interrogation.
The real move here is how the film stays locked on Esther's face as her certainty cracks — that micro-shift from professional composure to genuine unease carries the whole thing, a performance choice that transforms what could've been rote mystery into something genuinely unsettled.