Arekara - La Vie après (2013)

Arekara - The Life After

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.

Arekara - La Vie après

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Kôichi Nakazato
Kôichi Nakazato
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Shigetsugu Gotô
Shigetsugu Gotô
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Sumiko Abe
Sumiko Abe
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Yûji Ishimori
Yûji Ishimori
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Hiroko Utsumi
Hiroko Utsumi
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Momoko Seto
Momoko Seto
Director
Quentin Degy
Quentin Degy
Sound
Momoko Seto
Momoko Seto
Producer
Momoko Seto
Momoko Seto
Editor
Nicolas Sarkissian
Nicolas Sarkissian
Editor

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