Metamazon🏆

29’ 59”

Category: Documentary

Director: Can Adiloglu

Special Mention — Documentary Film (Strength & Humanity)

Synopsis

Canan, who was diagnosed with cancer while living abroad, returns to Turkey urgently. She regrets everything she missed in her life and decides to do whatever she wants afterwards.

After treatments and operations she had, she establishes Metastatic Breast Cancer Association in order to address this more complicated and lesser-known disease than early breast cancers.

In order to define women struggling with this difficult to pronounce disease, the association starts using the term METAMAZON; combined from the “MET” of the sickness and the fighter Amazon women in mythology, cutting their breast to use arms. “Metamazons” are women who cling tightly to life rather than leaving it, struggle, hug life, and can say "I love my cancer".

While five-year survival rate is only 20% in metastatic breast cancer, Canan’s colorful life that she lived with the disease extraordinarily from her 7th to 11th years, her disease process and relationships are presented from a patient’s perspective.