Hoy
2025 · 3m · España
Directed by Miguel Montoya Sánchez
Genres: coming-of-age, drama
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Fany Lucía is a young woman with mental-health problems, low self-esteem, and suicidal tendencies, until one day she realizes how important the people around her are to her — and from then on marks a 'today' to remind herself of it every day.
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The premise reads like a Hallmark card—suicidal ideation cured by realizing people care about you—and yet Montoya Sánchez somehow resists the treacle and lands something genuinely unsentimental. He's working against every instinct the material wants him to have, which is either maddening or brilliant depending on your tolerance for restraint.
There's a lineage here of intimist portraiture—the close study of a moment of rupture—that feels indebted to a certain Eastern European sensibility about small transformations; the formal precision with which Montoya frames the everyday as redemptive grounds the melodrama and lets it breathe as something earned rather than granted.
The entire film hinges on how Fany marks that first 'today'—the physical gesture, the tempo of the cut, the sound design around it—and that singular choice is what transforms a recovery narrative from prescription into something that actually *moves*, because we feel the deliberation behind the decision rather than being told what to feel.