The Departure
ABOUT
Ittetsu Nemoto, a former punk-turned-Buddhist-priest in Japan, has made a career out of helping suicidal people find reasons to live. But this work has come at the cost of his own family and health. The Departure captures Nemoto at a crossroads, when his growing self-destructive tendencies lead him to confront the same question his patients ask him: what makes life worth living?
LANA WILSON is an Emmy-winning and two-time Spirit Award-nominated director. Her most recent film, the Taylor Swift documentary MISS AMERICANA, was the opening night film of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, a New York Times and IndieWire Critics’ Pick, and named one of the five best documentaries of the year by the National Board of Review. Wilson’s previous film, THE DEPARTURE, was critically acclaimed as a poetic, profound, and moving exploration of what makes life worth living. It premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for the 2018 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary. Wilson’s first film, AFTER TILLER, about the four most-targeted abortion providers in the country, premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for four Cinema Eye Honors and a Spirit Award, and won the 2015 Emmy Award for Best Documentary. Wilson’s short-form series A CURE FOR FEAR premiered at CIFF in 2018 and was nominated for the IDA Award for Best Short-Form Series.
CREDITS
Eri Yokoyama
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