Black Box Diaries

2024 | B/N | 104:00

In this nonfiction procedural that cuts right to the heart, a journalist takes on Japan’s patriarchal sociopolitical system as she investigates her own sexual assault, using her camera to detail every step of the grueling eight-year struggle for justice.

Country: Japón
Direction: Ito; Shiori
Script: Ito; Shiori
Production: Nyari; Eric, Aqvilin; Hanna
Photography: Aqvilin; Hanna, Okamura; Yuta, Ito; Hicri, Shiratama; Keke, Otzka; Yuichiro
Sound: Tracy; Andrew
Music: De Gli Antoni; Mark
Participation year at FICM: 2024

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