The degree program for the Oscars of a doctor who turned his life around to tell stories that "heal the soul".

Only three years ago he left his work as a specialist in Radiation Oncology to become a screenwriter: "Since I was a child, medicine and cinema were my two passions," says Nach Solís, who after graduating from the University of Navarra in 2013 and after 15 years dedicated to his patients, "went from curing cancer to healing certain wounds of the soul" with his stories, as he says. Now, after a dizzying film degree program , which includes projects such as Historias de protegidos for Atresplayer or Respira for Netflix, he is one step away from being nominated for an Oscar for the short film París 70, of which he is the author and screenwriter.

This story, awarded with more than 150 prizes and with nominations including the Goya and Forqué awards, has been selected among the fifteen short films from all over the world that opt for the Oscar in the category of "Best Fiction Short Film". And this coming Thursday, the 23rd, it will be known if the work of Nach Solís reaches the red carpet.

Shot in Catalan and directed by Dani Feixas, the short film tells the life of Jan(Alain Hernández), a son who takes care of his sick mother, Ángela(Luisa Gavasa). This, due to Alzheimer, learns every day that her husband has died and this plunges him into a terrible sadness, until one day Jan decides to change that status and make him happy the last days of his life. Paris 70 is a story about Alzheimer's, terminal illnesses and palliative care, and pays tribute to the caregivers, "the great forgotten ones", according to Nach.

The short film is based on his own experience, that of an oncologist, when he attended to some 40 patients a day at his enquiry and in which stories of salvation were mixed with stories of pain, death and the end of life. And those experiences are reflected in this and almost all of his scripts. "I have cared for patients until the end. And although I sometimes forget that I am a doctor, my profession gave me 15 years of happiness and those human stories are reflected in my scripts and in the way I live."

A universal love story

Those 15 years began in 2007 at campus of the University of Navarra: "I was a very curious person, I liked science and health, and although I had another passion, I decided to go down that path, that of Medicine". Many people tell him that he could have saved himself a lot of time and money, but he believes that if he had, "he would have saved himself one of the great experiences of his life". Because in addition to many friends, he remembers the human quality of the University, both professors and doctors. "That makes the difference: it helped me as a doctor and now it is what I capture in my scripts.

Even when he was in college, he expressed his enthusiasm for the seventh art in his blog "La industria del cine" (The film industry). "Over time I realized that I wanted to write my own stories," he says. That is why, after graduating in 2013 and combining his residency program in Radiation Oncology at the General University Hospital of Albacete with programs of study film courses and film programs, he decided to bet on his other passion. Not without first taking a diploma program of Scriptwriting at the Instituto del Cine Madrid and a Master's Degree of Series Script at the ECAM (School of Cinematography and Audiovisual of the Community of Madrid).

On the connection between the two professions, Nach affirms that, at the end of the day, in both the goal is to heal: And not only that, because beyond entertaining people, or making them forget their problems, it is about telling human stories that move the world. That is part of the success, in his opinion, of Paris 70: "Despite dealing with a terminal illness and death, it is a story with a lot of light, a hymn to life. A very universal love story.

The Filmin platform included Paris 70 among "the ten jewels of Spanish cinema", but whether or not it makes it to the red carpet, this short film has changed his life. After its success, the production company Morena Films bought him the rights for its feature film adaptation, Reina de las hadas, for which he also wrote the script at signature . He is also working on the second season of Respira, and in the spring of 2025, he will begin the festival distribution of Piedra, papel o tijera, his next short film as screenwriter, directed by Miguel Ángel Olivares and starring Nacho Guerreros and Luisa Gavasa.

We will have to wait until Thursday to find out if Paris 70 will travel next March 3 to Los Angeles, but Nach already says: "The red carpet is a childhood dream that all of us who work in film have, but coming this far I consider it more than fulfilled.