This documentary about a small Japanese island, a once thriving mining outpost that now has only 100 residents, lightens its existential concerns with a focus on human connection
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Like a picture postcard sent from the future,
, which was presented in a world premiere within the Visions du Réel Festival’s National Competition, seems to offer a glimpse of what the future could hold for us, should Nature decide to take back what is rightfully hers. In this sense, Ikeshima Island in Japan, which is the protagonist of Ticinese director
Andrea Pellerani’s latest film, serves as an example, or rather a laboratory in which the consequences of a hypothetical reversal of power between men and Nature can be duly assessed. What would happen if the consumerist frenzy enveloping us suddenly disappeared? And what if the weapons we use to impose our will onto the spaces which welcome us, likewise stopped working? These are just a couple of the questions pondered by
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