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The Day the Sun Fell Als die Sonne vom Himmel fiel Aya Domenig
* 1972 in Japan. Joint Swiss and Japanese citizenship. Aya Domenig studied Social Anthropology, Film Studies and Japanology at Zurich University and graduated in Film Directing from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Her graduation short film HARU ICHIBAN (Spring Storm) was presented at important festivals such as Locarno, Winterthur and Clermont-Ferrand and was awarded at Premier Plans in Angers. THE DAY THE SUN FELL is her first feature length documentary.
Swiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the granddaughter of a doctor on duty for the Red Cross during the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiro shima, approaches the experience of her de ceased grandfather by tracing the lives of a doc tor 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. Beautifully intimate and personal, yet it reaches out across the world in terms of the issues that are at hand. Anne Thompson, Indiewire
A topic of international interest – this movie is poetic. Peter Debruge, Variety
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Switzerland 2015, 78 min. Original languages: German / Japanese World premiere: Festival del film Locarno 2015 Production: ican films gmbh, Zurich SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen World Rights: ican films gmbh, Zurich T +41 44 252 33 59 www.ican-films.com