14 minutes to watch a man learn he's not the main character—literally.
Sergio believes that outer beauty is everything. On his girlfriend's grandmother's party day, he pays too much attention to his appearance, which leads to a series of complications that will make him understand the true meaning of beauty.
Acting
Adrián Acosta's micro-expressions of dawning shame.
Direction
Uribarri packs a feature's worth of humiliation into 14 minutes.
Director
Mauricio Uribarri
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title's wordplay—'surface' vs 'losing time in shiny spaces'—captures the film's critique of Instagram-era self-obsession compressed into intimate family drama.
At 14 minutes, this premiered in festival circuits where programmers specifically seek 'lunch break' films—complete stories for fragmented attention spans.
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