Un día conocí a una gota
2014 · 15m · España
Directed by David Díaz, Shathu Entayla
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, whimsical
A teenage boy who could be anyone decides, by prior request, to reread his diary looking for answers without having asked anything yet; in the diary is written his relationship with Marta, a former partner, and with his great friend Alma: what would happen if the past became present and he could change something of the future, if the formulation of the question and the answer arrived at the same time, if a drop of sadness fell from the sky on a rainy day without clouds?
Picked by Felix
The scouts
This is exactly the kind of premise that makes people uncomfortable because it refuses to settle—a kid rereading his own diary like it's a séance, collapsing past and future into the same confused present, and then throwing in a literally impossible raindrop from a cloudless sky. Most scouts would call it too weird to land; I'm calling it fearless.
The film's formal architecture—nested temporalities, the diary as both frame and mirror, that surrealist gesture at the end—suggests a real engagement with memory narratives in cinema, though the execution risks collapsing under the weight of its own metaphysical ambition.
What matters here is the decision to make the diary *active* rather than decorative, and how the directors use that structure to generate genuine narrative tension from a static premise; the rain without clouds works because every other choice in the film has earned that kind of poetic permission.