One of the best short fiction films nominated for an Oscar is The man who couldn't remain silent, a Croatian film of only fourteen minutes that takes us to a real massacre, that of Štrpcio. The one of February 27, 1993, during the Bosnian War, during a trip from Belgrade to Montenegro on a passenger train. Bosnian Serb paramilitaries stopped the convoy with the intention of identifying the identity and religion of the passengers. They killed nineteen people. Only one passenger, Tomo Buzov, stood up to the soldiers, and now the short film pays tribute to his gesture. It is an impressive story, very raw. It plays with the confusion about who will be the man who will have the courage to raise his voice, but also with the cowardice of the spectator, who projects himself in that carriage and thinks about what his conduct would be. Silence, as announced by the title, has a decisive weight in the emotion of the film. And there is a devastating circular plan. After the character played by Buzov gets off the train, the camera shows the interior of the carriage. We see the face of each of the passengers, we feel the fear and discomfort of that moment and, above all, the details of an empty seat. Also a newspaper on the table, the cup of coffee, the reading glasses... The objects acquire an imposing force. You can find the short film on Movistar+. Don't miss it.