Swiss-Japanese filmmaker Aya Domenig, the granddaughter of a doctor on duty for the Red Cross during the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, approaches the experience of her deceased grandfather by tracing the lives of a doctor and of former nurses who once shared the same experience. While gathering the memories and present views of these very last survivors, the nuclear disaster in Fukushima strikes and history seems to repeat itself. Main info: Original Title: Als die Sonne vom Himmel fiel Director: Aya Domenig Production: ican films Format: Made for Cinema/TV Runtime: 52/78 min Category: Documentary Language: Japanese, German Subtitled Versions: English, German, French Country: Switzerland, Finland Year: 2015 Genre: Society, Japan, Atom Bomb Broadcaster: SRF, YLE Selected Festivals & Awards: "World Premiere" Locarno Int. Film Festival, Semaine de la Critique, Switzerland (2015) Int. Film Festival Hiroshima, Japan (2015) Weltfilmtage Thusis, Switzerland (2015) this human world, Austria (2015) Solothurner Filmtage, Switzerland (2016) "Documentary Competition" Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Germany (2016) "International Competition Documentary Film" Mumbai International Film Festival, India (2016) DOCfeed Eindhoven, Netherlands (2016) Green Image Film Festival, Japan (2016) Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Habitat Section, Greece (2016) Sayonara Nukes Berlin, Germany (2016) "Special Mention", Documentary Competition, Bolzano Film Festival Bozen, Italy (2016) "Special Mention", Documentary Competition, Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (2016) G?ttingen International Ethnographic Film Festival, Germany (2016) "Documentary Competition", International Film Festival Innsbruck, Austria (2016) International Documentary Film Festival 'Encuentros del Otro Cine', EDOC, Ecuador (2016) Seoul Human Rights Film Festival (SHRFF), South Korea (2016) Dokumentarfilmwoche Bonn, Germany (2016) "Best Film Score" for Marcel Vaid, Swiss Film Award 2016 "Horizonte Film Award" Fünf Seen Filmfestival , Germany (2016) "2nd Prize" Bozcaada Int. Festival of Ecological Documentary (BIFED), Turkey (2016) 2016 David Plath Media Award for Best Film Work on East Asian Anthropology, USA (2016) "Prix Anthropologie et développement durable & Prix Mario Ruspoli" Festival Int. Jean Rouch, France (2016) Sales Contact: info@magnetfilm.de / magnetfilm.de