Innocence, sex and lust converge to tell the story of Guille, a teenager who seeks himself through others.
Acting
Tarasiewicz captures that specific teenage desperation perfectly.
Direction
Sandoli refuses to let you look away from uncomfortable moments.
Editing
Tight 19 minutes — no fat, all nerve.
Director
Valentino R. Sandoli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of early-2010s Spanish queer shorts that rejected coming-out narratives for messier, hornier stories. The genre basically said: what if gay teens were allowed to be terrible too?
The title 'Paradigm' is deeply ironic — Guille keeps searching for a model to copy (Marcos, the party, performative confidence) and keeps failing because he's performing masculinity he doesn't actually feel.
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