Japan | 2014 | 35 min | Documentary
Director: Atsushi Funahashi | Producer: Yoshiko Hashimoto
Original language: Japanese | Subtitles: English
(Selected for Screening in Brazil)
Synopsis: A visual contemplation on the effect of radioactivity on human beings. It follows nuclear refugees from Futaba Town, Fukushima, portraying how they were exposed to radiation from the nuclear catastrophe and how they cope with its fear.
Awards:
Edward Snowden Award @ Signes de Nuit International film Festival 2014
Atsushi Funahashi
Japan | 2014 | 114 min | Documentary
Director: Atsushi Funahashi | Producer: Yoshiko Hashimoto
Original language: Japanese | Subtitles: English
(Selected for Screening in Brazil)
Synopsis: Nuclear Nation II follows a new group of people exiled from Futaba, the region occupied by the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Since the 1960s, Futaba had been promised prosperity with tax breaks and major subsidies to compensate for the presence of the plant... until the townspeople lost their homeland on March 11, 2011. The film portrays their lives as refugees in an abandoned high school, and in temporary housing. Through their agonies and frustrations, the film questions the real cost of nuclear energy and unbridled capitalism.