Documentary filmmaker Bernardo Moll, director of 'Jan's story', dies about his son with Down syndrome

The filmmaker and editor Bernardo Moll has died this Wednesday at the age of 47 in Madrid after battling cancer for five years.

In 2016 he premiered what has been his best-known audiovisual project,

the documentary he shot for six years about his son, born on November 4, 2009 with Down syndrome.

Moll, in collaboration with his wife, the actress Mónica Vic, created a blog that became a film with Jan's day-to-day life. She began by revealing her fears after receiving the news of her condition to later share the joys that the growth of her son.

The film reached theaters and was a candidate

in the category of best documentary at the Forqué Awards and at the Medals of the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos.

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Jan's story

In statements to the Efe agency, Moll pointed out: “People were excited, they told me how it helped them to face their cases and that was when I thought of making the film;

I bought a better camera and I began to record every day everything that was happening”.

is available on platforms such as RTVE Play, Filmin and Prime Video.

“There is a lot of fear of the unknown.

I have seen how people look at Jan, many times with pity, and that he does not have excessive features.

I would like the film to help the public see that nothing is happening, that it can happen to anyone and that it is a story of overcoming and acceptance”, she assured.

For years he worked as an editor on five features and two dozen shorts.

His last credit corresponds to the animated short

(2022), by Carmen Córdoba González, which was nominated in its category in the last edition of the Goyas.

At the previous gala, his work also won the Spanish cinema awards for the fiction short

(2021), by Jorge Muriel, with which Moll won the Fugaz award, from the short film sector, for best editing.

Moll also edited another short by Muriel, a Goya candidate:

(2018).

Bernardo Moll, in 2020, with his web series 'Sola'.

During the pandemic, he created the website unidosdesdecasa.com, a meeting space where anyone could upload their videos, and

, a web series that he created and recorded with Mónica Vic. family, after testing positive for coronavirus, she and Moll decided to take advantage of the time and filmed this horror web series.

With Barco Pirata, the production company directed by Sergio Peris-Mencheta, audiovisually documented the process of creation and construction of the play

For that production company he has left another documentary unfinished, this time focused on the work

in which Juan Diego Botto put himself in the shoes of Federico García Lorca.