Una noche
2006 · 14m · España
Directed by Diego Herranz
A man with communication problems with women chases them in the street; one night, the woman he follows notices and provokes him, and they end up in a hotel where, miraculously, everything starts to work between them.
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The premise reads like a creep-apology, but Herranz somehow inverts the hunter-hunted dynamic into something genuinely weird and tender—a short that could've been titled 'Nice Guy Fever Dream' and *meant it* without winking.
A formally assured work that sits at the intersection of Nouvelle Vague ambiguity and contemporary romance—the 14 minutes feel sculpted, each scene doing dual work between realism and fable, grounded in a tradition of cinema that trusts mystery over resolution.
The real alchemy is how Herranz holds the surreal logic of the premise without breaking it: one woman's choice to *engage* rather than flee rewires the entire grammar of the film, and that single decision—her agency inverting his passivity—is what makes the miraculous ending feel earned instead of absurd.