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Noriko \u2013 who lives in Canada \u2013 is grappling not only with the overgrown garden but also with the dense thicket of silence. She finds letters to her mother \u2013 accounts of the suffering endured after the atomic bombing, a time her family never spoke of. Through these letters, we come to understand the profound sense of shame still carried by the <em>Hibakusha<\/em>, or survivors. Filmmaker Laurence L\u00e9vesque accompanies Noriko through Nagasaki, moving beyond memorial plaques in public spaces, and instead creating her own resistant act of remembrance. By listening to witnesses and looking at the landscape over and over again, Noriko constructs a multi-layered document. The film\u2019s immersive camerawork heightens our awareness, enabling us to connect the present with the past, and urging us not only to remember but to heed history\u2019s warning against repetition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>German premiere<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41173,"template":"","movie_year":[755],"movie_genre":[85],"movie_cat":[799,801],"festival":[805],"class_list":["post-41178","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_year-755","movie_genre-documentary-en","movie_cat-panorama-en-2025","movie_cat-audience-award-en-2025","festival-2025-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Okurimono - Internationales Frauen Film Fest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/frauenfilmfest.com\/en\/movie\/okurimono\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Okurimono - 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