Una galleta de chocolate
2025 · 5m · España
Directed by Andrés Cansino
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, tender
An ordinary day begins in the life of a 12-year-old boy. Waiting with his class at the institute entrance to be collected by their teacher, he sits next to a classmate, and a conversation arises around a shared chocolate biscuit — an apparently innocent conversation that deepens into their lives and feelings, and the difficulties that unite them.
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Everyone expects a coming-of-age film about two kids bonding over snacks to be precious and affirming — Cansino subverts that by letting the chocolate biscuit become a portal into real damage, which is exactly the kind of quiet inversion that makes me sit up.
The film locates itself in a lineage of Spanish minimalist cinema — that patient, observational tradition — and the formal restraint with which it unfolds emotional complexity recalls the discipline of early Kore-eda, though Cansino finds his own register.
What makes this work is the decision to keep the camera on the spaces between their words, letting silence and the physical fact of sharing one biscuit do the emotional labor that most directors would hand to dialogue — that's the choice that turns five minutes into something that breathes.