friends after 3.11

• Director: Iwai Shunji
• Language: Japanese
• Theatrical Release Date: October 1, 2011

Synopsis: Friendships are forged through crisis. Iwai Shunji gathered together those that had become important to him after the tsunami of 11 March 2011 and held long discussions with them. Their controversial conversations revolve around science and politics, self-interest and altruism, money and responsibility and renouncing atomic power. We thus meet a young activist in her school uniform, speak to Malaysian director Tan Chui Mui via Skype and learn that the same number of people commit suicide in Japan as run the Tokyo marathon... Where is Japan right now? How has the country been changed by what its people experienced? What are the chances of a radical rethink? [Synopsis courtesy of Berlin International Film Festival]