Film
In Their Traces
2025 · 1h 37m · Documentary
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Overview
Sexual abuse has been characterized as a “murder of the spirit.” But is this a suffering that one person must bear alone? Beyond despair, there is hope, a faint ray of light from the spirit. A friend of the filmmaker suffers from PTSD, having flashbacks of sexual abuse. Having witnessed this, the filmmaker meets a photographer who is also a survivor and decides to make a film. The long production process lasted eight years. What is the nature of the despair, and the hope, that reside deep within these people suffering from PTSD conditions including regret, murderous impulses, depression, insomnia, detachment, and suicidal thoughts? The director appears on screen, questioning the very meaning of making this film. He tries to see light in how they live, looking upward from the depths of suffering.
Crew
- Shigeru KobayashiDirector
- Norio NagakuraProducer
- Takeshi HataProducer · Editor
Details
- Release date
- October 14, 2025
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Documentary
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