Distopías alcanzadas

Distopías alcanzadas
Nayra Sanz Fuentes, Spain, 2026, 61 min, digital, Spanish, English, German, Arabic, Spanish subtitles and electronic English subtitles.

The film is constructed through the exploration of a series of contemporary spaces where the relationships between nature, technology, and human beings converge, shaped by multiple tensions. Migration, climate crisis, overtourism, and forms of control and surveillance are not presented as isolated issues, but instead as elements that affect each other and point to the same social, economic, and political framework.

In a time marked by the hyper-productivity of images, Nayra's work in revisiting previously recorded materials is especially relevant. The film is constructed from an exercise of rereading, reinterpreting, and re-editing pre-existing footage. These images, which do not necessarily belong to the immediate present, are activated again and reveal their eloquence, retaining an urgent critical capacity related to the reality we inhabit as a society. This gesture by the director is entirely consistent with general approach in the film itself.

The different concepts are addressed in a poetic and subtle way, without resorting to an explicit or obvious exposition. The film works through the construction of sensations and atmospheres that, at times, are contradictory — unease, horror, beauty, admiration, chaos.

Rather than offering a conclusion or a single interpretation, the film opens up a space for reflection through ambiguity, allowing the images to act and the questions to linger, in direct relation to some of the tensions shaping our present.

 Ekhiñe Etxeberria