Best Documentary Film 2016 - Nominated
The Day The Sun Fell
by Aya Domenig
Swiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the granddaughter of a doctor on duty for the Red Cross during the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, approaches the experience of her deceased grandfather by tracing the lives of a doctor and of former nurses who once shared the same experience. While gathering the memories and present views of these very last survivors, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima strikes and history seems to repeat itself.
Screenplay
Aya Domenig
Production
ican films gmbh Zürich, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen Zürich
Crew
cinematography: Mrinal Desai | editing: Tania Stöcklin | locationsoundmix: Makoto Takaoka | soundediting: Oswald Schwander | sounddesign: Oswald Schwander | rerecordingsoundmix: Ralf Krause | music: Marcel Vaid
Festivals
51. Solothurner Filmtage
37. Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken
This Human World 2015 Int. Filmfestival der Menschenrechte
Hiroshima International Film Festival
68° Festival del film Locarno