FICTION short

Directed by: Ismael G. Nicolás
Year of production: 2025
Country of origin: Spain
Runtime: 10 min
Genre: drama

Ruben is a 30-year-old boxer who gets dumped by a girl a few days before an important fight. And sport becomes for him an escape route, a way to avoid what he cannot comprehend and express in words. Ruben does not understand what is happening to him and how to deal with it, and eventually vents his pain through anger and aggression.