

A 12-minute argument about a couch that'll wreck your relationship with furniture forever.
Manuela and her mother have different ways of perceiving the world they live in. They discuss masculinity, love, and, as if that were not enough, the importance of a sofa.
Acting
Astengo and Yangali pack decades into glances.
Writing
Dialogue so sharp you'll need stitches.
Direction
12 minutes, one space, infinite layers.
Director
Sebastián Zavala
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peruvian cinema's recent explosion of female-directed micro-dramas uses domestic spaces to interrogate patriarchy's furniture.
The sofa isn't metaphor — it's material history. Every stain holds a decision someone else made for these women.