Hiroshima Nagasaki Download + The Student Wrestler

A voyage of self-discovery like all of our favourite road movies, Hiroshima Nagasaki Download is a precious audiovisual document that knits together an array of private experiences from a public catastrophe. Two college friends embark on a trip down the west coast of North America on a mission to visit eighteen survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb tragedies who now reside in the United States. Each of the survivors shares their firsthand experience of the harrowing explosion and the physical and mental strain they have shouldered since. The weight and sincerity of these disturbing testimonies begin to unsettle the two, yet the touching support and gratitude of their subjects and their realisation that time is of the essence motivate them to proceed with their journey.

Director Shinpei Takeda will be in attendance for an introduction and Q&A.

This film will be preceded by the documentary short The Student Wrestler. Winner of the Audience Award at the Image Forum Festival 2010, The Student Wrestler is a revealing documentary portrait of the homosocial world of a university wrestling club and its leading light Tominaga, a young man more interested in hanging out with his mates than graduating.