Still from Hanabi

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Hanabi

Ana Vaz

Hanabi is a visceral cinematic adaptation of Yoko Hayasuke’s Journal of a Radioactive Brain, written in the aftermath of the Tōhoku earthquake and nuclear disaster.
Runtime
105 min
Country
France-Brazil
Language
English, Japanese
Year
2026
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Blending diary, personal correspondence, political essay and speculative fiction, Ana Vaz’s cinematic collage moves through a landscape of loss and renewal, tracing how communities seek to rebuild lives and hold on to meaning amid enduring uncertainty. Through its languid yet inquisitive gaze and fragmented yet richly tactile imagery, the film grapples with catastrophe, probing how radioactivity reconfigures the body’s experience of time and perception.

Hyun Jin Cho