2019, USA, Director: Susan Strickler, Producers: Susan Strickler and Mitchie Takeuchi; 80 min.
Hiroshima survivor Setsuko Thurlow devoted her entire life to demanding a nuclear-free world. Culminating with Thurlow’s acceptance speech at the 2017 Nobel Peace Awards, this documentary explores Thurlow’s life and work, as well as her evolving friendship with director Mitchie Takeuchi, a second-generation survivor. In telling Thurlow’s story, Takeuchi breaks her own family’s silence about the devastating nuclear attacks. WATCH TRAILER
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