T´ADHIB
2013 · 13m · España
Directed by Raquel Bedia
Genres: documentary, drama, war
Tones: contemplative, dark, melancholic
Andrés, a young war journalist investigating the use of torture in conflicts, meets a former Argentine soldier whose memory drives him to push his inquiry further.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Everyone expects a war journalism film to interrogate power—Bedia does that, sure, but the real move is letting the soldier's fractured memory become the *form* itself, which is the opposite of the polished exposé most people would greenlight.
A formally precise essay film that inherits from both the essay documentary tradition and intimate portraiture; the decision to let testimony and silence carry equal weight places it squarely in conversation with postdictatorship cinema's most rigorous practitioners.
The entire film hinges on one choice—using the soldier's voice as an unreliable narrator layered over Andrés's visual investigation—and that single decision transforms what could be a standard interview piece into something genuinely disorienting about how memory and journalism collide.