Stone Throw (Tiro de piedra)
2025 · 3m · Noruega
Directed by David Martín Martín
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
Elisa, a girl with a special gift for beating her friend Tatiana at almost everything, has never experienced what it feels like to lose something.
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A three-minute meditation on winning as a void—conceptually lean, but it plays it safe enough that the premise's subversive potential (a girl who's never *lost*) feels more like a gentle fable than the gut-punch it could be.
Martín locates the film in a lineage of Spanish coming-of-age quietism, favoring compositional restraint and the unsaid; the tender framing choices honor the tradition while the central conceit—mastery as emotional poverty—carries genuine philosophical weight.
The film's entire architecture hinges on a single choice: the moment Elisa realizes loss, and Martín captures it not through dialogue or reaction but through a barely perceptible shift in how she occupies the frame—three minutes of precise restraint paying off in one devastating beat of recognition.