Tiramisú
2025 · 3m
Directed by Alex Coman
Genres: comedy, coming-of-age
Tones: darkly comic, whimsical
Pablo, a nineteen-year-old who always follows the rules, secretly rebels by cooking naked while dancing to music — until his mother Aurora comes home early and finds her perfect son naked in the kitchen making tiramisu.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise promises subversion—a rule-follower's secret rebellion—but the film plays it safe, landing the joke exactly where you'd expect it, which is precisely where it stops being interesting.
Coman's framing is clean and the tonal balance between whimsy and domestic tension is assured, though the short feels more like a well-executed sketch than a film with something to say about the tradition it's touching.
The decision to keep the mother's reaction off-screen and let the sound design—the music, the knife on the board, Aurora's footsteps—carry the revelation is what makes this work; it's economical filmmaking that trusts the audience to complete the discomfort.