Telediario de las emociones
2018 · 15m · España
Directed by Mariam Ortega Justicia
Genres: comedy, family, satire
Tones: humorous, provocative, theatrical
Primary pupils and a teacher, fed up with trash news bulletins on national television, replace the format with a personal news agency and young presenters. The classroom broadcast satirises national newscasts.
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Kids hijacking the news format to weaponize sincerity against grown-up bullshit — this is subversion that actually *works* because it doesn't announce itself as clever. Ortega lets the satire live in the doing, not the winking.
A playful riff on institutional critique that sits somewhere between Brechtian distancing and classroom theatricality; the formal conceit of children-as-broadcasters inverts the authority structure without sacrificing compositional control.
The brilliance here is letting the kids' genuine emotional honesty do the satirical work — that tonal collision between earnest delivery and absurd content is a single, devastating choice that makes everything land.