Surf a través de los sentidos
2024 · 18m · España
Directed by Antonio Martín
Genres: biography, documentary, sports
Tones: contemplative, tender
Lorena Saura, founder of Surf Sin Limits, teaches adapted surfing while challenging the most intense waves, demonstrating that there are no limits to passion — inspiring stories of overcoming, incredible manoeuvres in the water and a powerful message of resilience and connection with nature.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Everyone expects inspiration porn from adaptive sports docs, and this one mostly delivers exactly that—but there's something genuinely unsettling about how the film lets the ocean itself become the real protagonist, which almost saves it from its own uplift formula.
A competent sports documentary that understands the lineage of biographical cinema and ocean filmmaking, though it settles comfortably into established rhythms rather than interrogating what makes this particular story formally necessary.
The decision to let wave-sound and breath carry entire sequences instead of leaning on interview confession is what transforms this from standard adaptive-sports coverage into something tactile and immediate—Martín understands that the *sensation* of surfing matters more than the story of overcoming.