Triunfadores
2017 · 8m · España
Directed by Joseba Alfaro
Genres: comedy, fantasy, satire
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, darkly comic
In the afterlife, a kind young woman seeks a new personality for the next life cycle: superficial and egocentric, a formula for success. Bureaucratic steps prove hard for a good person, as an indifferent clerk guards cosmic balance and a current personality sabotages the plan.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A bureaucratic afterlife where goodness is literally a liability—most scouts would've softened this into heartwarming garbage, but Alfaro leans hard into the absurdist despair and lets the premise do the corrupting work without flinching.
The film inherits a lineage from Kaufman and Egoyan's metaphysical comedies, executing its conceit with formal precision: the indifferent clerk and sabotaging personality are Kafkaesque instruments of cosmic satire, deployed with measured restraint.
The decision to keep the protagonist's goodness *active* throughout—having her sabotage herself rather than simply accept defeat—is the hinge that transforms what could be a one-joke premise into something genuinely tragic and alive.