

A 13-minute gut punch about silence, disappeared fathers, and piñatas that won't break.
On her birthday, Greta avoids the town fair. After work at a piñata shop, she finds silence in a secret spot. Returning home, as fireworks crackle and the corrida begins, her father, missing for five years, is back.
Direction
Donatini weaponizes the short format—every second earns its weight.
Cinematography
Fireworks and corrida as visual metaphor for explosive family secrets.

Director
Niccolò Donatini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The desaparecido crisis in Mexico has left over 100,000 missing; the film folds national trauma into one birthday.
Greta Corro is a non-professional actor playing opposite her real father—who actually disappeared for five years.
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