Arata Mori is a Japanese film director, editor, and artist based between Berlin and Tokyo. He studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in London and is a recipient of the Wim Wenders Scholarship (2025) and the Asian Cultural Council Individual Fellowship (2022).
In 2021, Mori directed the creative documentary A Million, a fictional travelogue set in imagined cities constructed from real urban landscapes undergoing transformation along China’s new Silk Road. The film premiered at the 64th DOK Leipzig.
In 2024, he co-directed Johatsu – Into Thin Air with German filmmaker Andreas Hartmann. The film explores the phenomenon of disappearance in Japan, focusing on so-called “Night Moving Companies” that help people vanish. It has screened at more than 35 international festivals — including Thessaloniki IDF, CPH:DOX, Krakow, and Shanghai — winning the main award at DOK.fest Munich. The film also had theatrical releases in Germany, London, and Hong Kong.
Mori is the co-founder of another:, a creative duo with photographer Laurian Ghinitoiu. Together, they have collaborated with artists and architects such as Bjarke Ingels, Joshua Ramus, and Shiota Chiharu. Their 2023 film veins traces the journey of marble from a Portuguese quarry to the World Trade Center site in New York, premiering at ADFF:NY. Their recent collaboration with Ingels is featured in the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture.
As an editor and editing consultant, Mori has worked on numerous films and television documentaries. His credits include Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s Ancestral Visions of the Future (Berlinale 2025), Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You (Berlinale 2019), and WOWOW’s WHO I AM series, which was nominated for an International Emmy.
He also directs documentaries for NHK, covering the refugee crisis in conflict zones such as the Ukrainian border and Iran.