The Rest

In 2025, I began filming "The Break" with the intention of starting a new era, closing one cycle and beginning another. A different way of looking at and approaching stories, refining them into a more minimalist style. "The Break," you could say, is my first experimental project in this new creative quest.

The idea stems from the need to expose workplace exploitation and mistreatment in today's society: the normalization of psychological violence, rudeness, poor human resource management, the lack of genuine leadership, and exploitation in the workplace. All of this without regard for the damage this can cause to the mental health of workers, who are usually the most vulnerable in the equation.

"The Break" is an ensemble short film that dissects contemporary workplace mistreatment with almost surgical precision and intimate sensitivity. The film is structured around seven conversations between workers who, during their brief breaks, let loose what they usually swallow: exhaustion, fear, frustration, humiliation, and the shattered dream that "working with dignity" is still possible.

The common thread is a woman who goes to a tough, almost inquisitorial, job interview. Through this interrogation, the seven micro-stories intertwine, as if each voice were an echo of the system that seeks to devour her.

The tone is realistic, direct, minimalist, but with an emotional pulse that transforms each break into a confessional. Here, no one is okay. Here, no one rests. And that is precisely the message: if your only moment of respite is a 10-minute break next to a trash can, perhaps the problem isn't you… but the world that exploits you.

THE BREAK is a social portrait, a critique of the precariousness we accept as normal. A film built from the truth of glances, broken silences, and the humanity that resists even when work tries to erase it.