Taquilla Equivocada
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Sergi Molina, Kiara Herrera
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age, satire
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, darkly comic
Two students arrive at the same metal locker at the same time and each insists it is theirs; their argument escalates from rational claims to emotional pleas until a third student calmly uses the locker and walks away.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Three minutes of two kids arguing over ownership until a stranger just *uses* the locker—it's a perfect middle finger to the assumption that escalation means resolution, and most scouts would've cut it before the third student even appears because they'd think they'd missed the point.
Molina and Herrera situate themselves squarely in the lineage of Beckettian comedy and structural minimalism, where the refusal of climax becomes the form itself; the editing rhythms build tension through restraint rather than release.
The film turns entirely on one formal choice—that third student walks past without acknowledgment—and suddenly the entire preceding argument collapses into something genuinely haunting about indifference masquerading as resolution.