Arata Mori is a Japanese film director, producer, editor, and artist based between Berlin and Tokyo. He studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in London and is a recipient of the Asian Cultural Council Fellowship. In 2025, he was awarded the Wim Wenders Scholarship, a prestigious award for emerging filmmakers, selected by Wim Wenders himself.
His work has been presented at major international festivals including CPH:DOX, Thessaloniki, Shanghai, international Emmy and Venice Biennale.
In 2021, his creative documentary A Million—a fictional travelogue set in imagined cities along China’s New Silk Road—premiered at DOK Leipzig. In 2024, he co-directed Johatsu – Into Thin Air with Andreas Hartmann, a film exploring the phenomenon of disappearance in Japan and "Night Movers" who help people to vanish. The film has screened at over 40 international film festivals, won the main award at DOK.fest Munich, and had theatrical releases in Germany, Japan, the UK, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
As part of the creative duo another: with photographer Laurian Ghinitoiu, Mori has collaborated with leading artists and architects including Bjarke Ingels, Joshua Ramus, and Shiota Chiharu. Their film veins premiered at ADFF:NY, and their work was featured in the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Mori has also directed television documentaries, including the International Emmy-nominated WHO I AM (WOWOW) and NHK Special programs on the Middle East refugee crisis and smuggling business. As an editor and editing consultant, he has worked on Berlinale titles such as Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s Ancestral Visions of the Future (2025) and Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You (2019).