366 días
2014 · 18m · España
Directed by Poldo Pomés
Genres: biography, documentary
Tones: contemplative, tender
Diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2013, Cecília Bofarull shares her year of chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy, her thoughts, doubts and fears, from the day life stopped to the turn that comes when treatment ends.
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The scouts
Cancer diary docs are comfort food for the festival circuit—predictable, worthy, safe. This one at least resists the redemption arc, but it's still playing the long-form confessional game everyone expects from the form.
A formally restrained portrait that trusts duration and accumulation over dramatic beats; Pomés' year-long structure echoes the medical calendar itself, situating personal testimony within institutional time in a way that recalls the best contemporary essay documentaries.
The revelation is letting the camera simply remain—no score, no narrative push, just Cecília's unguarded voice and the texture of a life reorganized by treatment, and that restraint is what transforms a personal document into something universally legible.