Atomic People
Imagine! Festival presents Atomic People (2023), a documentary about the last survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
Testimony gathered from some of the last ‘Hibakusha’ atomic bomb survivors before their voices are lost forever.
The decision by the United States to drop atomic bombs on two Japanese cities – Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and Nagasaki three days later – was one of the most momentous and destructive in world history.
Nearly 80 years later, the astonishing Atomic People gathers the testimony of some of the last ‘Hibakusha’, survivors of the two atomic bombs, before their voices are lost forever. With an average age of 85, most Hibakusha were children when the bombs were dropped.
Combining their personal accounts with archive footage, the film features a significant number of voices from this shrinking group, the only people left on earth to have survived a nuclear bomb, while exploring how their experiences continue to affect them to this day.
“An unflinching, visceral documentary that retells the horrors of the atomic bombings of Japan through the testimonies of the survivors themselves, this is a painful but important film to see as the last survivors of the bombs reach old age.” The Independent
Age 12+.
