johatsu - the missing

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2022

in production

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feature length documentary film

by Andreas Hartmann and Arata Mori 

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In contemporary Japan, people vanish without a trace with the support of so-called “Night Moving Companies”, which help people to disappear from their current life. Known as the Johatsu, or “the evaporated”, these people leave everything behind to start a new life somewhere else.

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Documentary in development, 90 min and 52 min

In co-production with BR/ARTE and in participation with SRF and yesDocu

Expected Release: 2022

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Grants and Awards

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• Development supported by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW “Gerd Ruge Grant”

• Selected for the “Masters Pitch” at the DOK.fest Munich 2019

• Nominated for the “German Composition Funding Award” at the DOK.fest Munich 2019

• “Sunny Side of the Doc Pitch Prize” at the DOK.fest Munich 2019

• Participant at the Sunny Side of the Doc international marketplace, La Rochelle – France 2019

• Selected for the DOK Leipzig Co-Pro Market 2019

• Production grants by BKM – Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien and Film- und Medienstiftung NRW