Tiempo extra
2016 · 9m · Argentina
Directed by Jadir Rojas
Genres: drama, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: contemplative, tense
A science-fiction drama with thriller elements follows its characters through a situation where extra time changes what is at stake.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise sits somewhere between time-heist thriller and philosophical meditation, which should be interesting, but it plays it weirdly straight—like it's afraid of committing to the absurdity baked into 'extra time changes stakes.' Wants to be subversive but keeps apologizing.
A formally composed sci-fi chamber piece that understands its debts to experimental Spanish-language cinema; the tense-contemplative balance suggests a filmmaker aware of how restraint and pacing function as argument. The architecture is sound, even if the thematic payoff feels somewhat familiar.
Rojas makes a bet on sound design and spatial tension to carry what could've been a high-concept gimmick—the sound choices in particular, the way silence becomes pressure, elevate a 9-minute premise into something that feels genuinely earned. That's where the film lives.