Haikus on a Plum Tree
Project Information
Working tilte | Haikus on a Plum Tree |
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Genre | Creative Documentary |
Project summary | In a multimedia travel log, filmmaker Mujah Maraini-Melehi explores the collective memory of her Italian family’s imprisonment in a Japanese war camp during WWII and its repercussions. With the help of her 101-year-old grandmother Topazia Alliata’s testimony and her aunt Dacia Maraini’s accounts, she works toward convincing her mother Toni Maraini to go beyond her memories and take her first journey back to Japan since 1946. |
Director | Mujah Maraini-Melehi |
Authors | Mujah Maraini-Melehi, Deborah Belford de Furia |
Producer | Maurizio Antonini |
Production Company | Interlinea Films |
Completion | 2016 |