FURUSATO
90mins or 52mins| HD | English version | original version with German subtitles available
Synopsis
A small town in Fukushima’s exclusion zone searches for normalcy after the world’s biggest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl.A small town in Fukushima’s exclusion zone searches for normalcy after the world’s biggest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl. A teen rocker, a media-savvy activist, a conflicted TEPCO engineer, and a female horse breeder cope with the loss of their homes and the unseen danger of radiation. Each faces a crucial decision: to stay or to go? Furusato, or hometown, is an unsettling portrait of daily life amid an ongoing cataclysm, one with repercussions far beyond Japan’s shores. While exploring the region during the four years following the disaster, director Thorsten Trimpop reveals a way of life that has taken hold amid tremendous uncertainty and risk, in a place rarely seen and often misunderstood. Culminating in a samurai horse race with a thousand-year tradition, the film offers a space to reflect on the larger issues of progress, its untold sacrifices, and the true cost of the way we live today.
Festivals/Awards
59th DOK Leipzig - Golden DoveBest Feature Dokumentary - Newburyport DFF
Viennale, Vienna IFF
Globale Meittelhessn
DOCPOINT Helsinki
ANN ARBOR IFF
IFF Guadalalara
achtung berlin!
IFF Boston
Cast and Crew
- Director Thorsten Trimpop
World Sales Company
NEW DOCSDasselstr. 75-77, 50674 Köln
Phone: +49 221 16819743
sales@newdocs.dehttp://www.newdocs.de
Production Company
BÜCHNER FILMPRODUKTION GmbHSchaafenstraße 25, 50676 Köln
Phone: +49 177 4468560
Fax: +49 30 75527724
info@buechnerfilm.dehttp://www.buechnerfilm.de
Links / Reference
youtu.be/h4COpINxnjk
VOD German
www.kino-on-demand.com/movies/...
www.buechner-filmproduktion.de
www.furusato-film.com.
www.im-film.de (German distribution)