Tiempo Añadido
2018 · 13m · España
Directed by David Comesaña
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Three-and-a-half-year-old Claudia suffers traumatic mutism after witnessing a mother's death, while overwhelmed father Santiago turns football into the only escape valve. During a televised match, an event overturns both existences, and Claudia enters a match where personal and paternal survival stand at stake.
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Everyone expects the grief narrative to fold inward; Comesaña makes it fold *outward* into the stadium, turning a football match into genuine metaphysical stakes—it's weird enough to work, but not so weird that it needs permission.
The formal architecture here is immaculate: how the edit moves between Claudia's silence and Santiago's escape, the way the film literalizes emotional states through sports without winking—this is precise, considered cinema that knows exactly which tradition it's both honoring and complicating.
That moment when Claudia enters the match isn't magic realism or fantasy—it's a single structural decision that recasts an entire 13 minutes, turning a small budget and three locations into something that feels both intimate and expansive.