12 minutes. One football match. Two boys who'll never speak again.
In rural Spain, two boys who are about to leave their village meet up to play one last football match together. What happens next will define their relationship forever.
Direction
Alcalde stretches 12 minutes into eternity with agonizing restraint.
Cinematography
Dust, sweat, and golden hour that curdles into something sinister.
Acting
Bosch and Flores communicate everything they can't say.
Director
Miguel Alcalde de la Fuente
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Spanish shorts exploring rural masculinity and repressed queer desire in dying villages.
The football serves as the only socially acceptable way these boys can touch each other — until it isn't.
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