For its 36th edition, FIDMarseille remains true to its mission: to spotlight independent cinema that is attentive to the echoes of the contemporary world and to the stories that reveal its fractures, both intimate and collective.

Des millénaires d’absence, Thousands of Years of Absence

Philippe Rouy

France, 2025, Color, Black and white, 117’

Première Mondiale

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In 2011, a few weeks after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a group of Japanese film-makers was formed. Anticipating a totally irradiated Japan, their ambition was to film all of the archipelago’s 6,852 islands before they became deserted.

Technical sheet

  • Script:
    Philippe Rouy
  • Photography:
    Philippe Rouy
  • Editing:
    Philippe Rouy
  • Sound:
    Matthieu Deniau, Antoine Baudouin
  • Cast:
    Yuika Hokama
  • Production:
    Arnaud Dommerc (ANDOLFI)
  • Contact:
    Arnaud Dommerc (ANDOLFI)