Cinema is well acquainted with the creative potential of adolescence, and there is no shortage of films that take place during this transitional stage into adulthood, a period where fascination, inexperience, and freedom of movement converge. This is precisely the moment in which the characters of Skill Issue, the debut feature film by Willy Hans, find themselves. Hans is already familiar to the Filmadrid audience. When Simon decides to skip his gym class, he embarks on a wandering journey that leads him and other young people to spend the day by the river. The heat and leisure of the afternoon translate into mysterious murmurs exchanged between them, lazy games, and poetic images of nature. The only thing that passes through this secluded space is the river water. Only when María, another young wanderer, arrives does Simon seem to emerge from his inertia, and together they decide to explore the area. In their social awkwardness, a fascination with one another begins to emerge—an intensity, a sense of enjoyment. With an utterly immersive atmosphere, Skill Issue is a film that submits to nothing: not to narrative, not to space, not to reality, not to fiction. Willy Hans constructs each image like a summer dream and, like his characters, allows the film to move through its surroundings, shifting perspectives and revealing a latent curiosity that surprises with its boldness. NURIA CUBAS