Última generación
2015 · 2m · España
Directed by Rafa Puerto
Genres: comedy, satire, sports
Tones: humorous, provocative
Children of the 21st century, their parents, and their relationship with mobile phones come into focus around a football game. The short contrasts generations through their use of technology.
Picked by Felix
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Everyone's doing the 'phones are ruining society' riff now, but Puerto actually inverts it—the real joke is that the parents are the ones missing the actual game, not the kids. It's a perfectly calibrated middle finger to tech-panic narratives that most festivals would greenlight without thinking twice.
The formal restraint here is admirable: a two-minute compression of generational critique through purely visual editing, letting the contrast between framing and focus do the argumentative work rather than announcing its thesis. It sits neatly in a lineage of sports-as-social-mirror pieces, executed with tonal precision.
The decision to keep the actual football match almost peripheral—using it as the anchor point around which all the phone distraction orbits—is what makes this land; a less confident hand would've foregrounded the game itself, but Puerto trusts the background to carry the satire.