Emergency Exit is a 2025 Spanish surrealist road movie directed by Lluís Miñarro.
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Plot
Fourteen people travel in a bus with unknown destination that they cannot leave. In the fiction, all the characters except Marisa Paredes' die.
Production
Lluís Miñarro co-wrote the screenplay with Lu Colomina. Emergency Exit was produced by Lluís Miñarro Producciones and El Viaje Films, and it had the collaboration of 3Cat and ICEC. Shooting locations included Tenerife, La Gomera, and Catalonia.
Release
The film world premiered in the 'Rebels With a Cause' section of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF). It was also programmed in the official selection of the 63rd Gijón International Film Festival. Distributed by Sideral Cinema, it was released theatrically in Spain on 19 December 2025.
Reception
Mariana Hristova of Cineuropa assessed the film to be "a post-modern pastiche" lamenting that "when it isn't quite funny enough – and sadly, that's the case here in some episodes – [it] can feel somewhat dated".
Luis Martínez of El Mundo gave the film a 4-star rating, deeming it to be "unclassifiable, sensual, occasionally provocative, abstract when it wants to be", and, thanks to Marisa Paredes, "even indispensable".
Fernando Bernal of Cinemanía rated the film 4 out of 5 stars considering it a "demonstration of how to work with images through words".