A 15-minute nightmare that'll make you side-eye every diner forever.
When his car breaks down, a man enters a cafeteria. The atmosphere is tense, and a little girl silently asks him for help. Disturbed by her request, he realizes something strange is going on.
Direction
Miquirray's refusal to look away becomes the film's moral weapon.
Acting
Polgovsky's silent plea burns through the screen without a word.
Director
Juan Pablo Miquirray
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Mexico's 'short film renaissance' of the 2000s, when directors used tight runtimes to bypass censorship on social issues. Miquirray studied under Arturo Ripstein, master of moral discomfort.
The title 'Capillus' (Latin for 'hair') references a single strand the girl pulls—the film's only physical evidence of her existence, and the protagonist's failed redemption.
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