Un minutito
2016 · 8m · España
Directed by Javier Macipe
Tones: contemplative, whimsical
María spends her days collecting signatures to change a law she considers unjust, but nobody has a minute for her — until the desperate campaigner meets Alejandro, who has a gift for her.
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The premise sounds like social-issue sap until you realize the film is actually about the absurdity of petition politics and human connection as a kind of cosmic joke—it commits to the bit without winking, which is rarer than it should be.
Macipe locates himself in a lineage of European humanist comedy, the kind that treats bureaucratic futility with both formal precision and genuine warmth; the 8-minute constraint becomes a curatorial choice rather than a limitation.
The entire film pivots on a single performance choice—Alejandro's arrival and what he offers María shifts from sentiment to something stranger and more true, and that one gesture of giving reframes what this campaign actually means.