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Arekara - The Life After (2013)
Directed by Momoko Seto
Documentary · 16m
In February 2012, I went to Ishinomaki, a town North of Tokyo that was half destroyed by the tsunami of March 11th, 2011, to meet the disaster victims who now live in temporary housing. I spent several days in the North, under the snow, listening to these people talk candidly about what they had lived through, telling their own stories without the media as an intermediary. Their testimonies were terrifying, harsh and sad, but at the same time touching, sincere and human. From the pictures and interviews that I collected, I decided to make a film, not to reflect how awful the events were, but to communicate the singular and even surreal nature of each person’s experience. My intention wasn’t so much to focus on this particular event in Japan, but rather to make these stories more universal as a way of paying tribute to all the victims of natural disasters throughout the world.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Momoko Seto
- Editor
- Momoko Seto, Nicolas Sarkissian
- Producer
- Momoko Seto
Details
- Original title
- Arekara - La Vie après
- Release date
- 2013-02-19
- Runtime
- 16m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- France, Japan
- Production
- Ecce Films