I’M SO SORRY

WU QU LAI CHU

By Liang ZHAO

REDIANCE - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2021

In the context of contemporary high-advanced technology and totalitarianism, this film presents the predicament of global warming in terms of humanity’s choices about nuclear power.

Festivals
& Awards

Cannes 2021
Le Cinema pour le Climat
Busan IFF 2021
Busan Cinephile Award winning
IDF 2021
Best Chinese Documentary winning
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Environmental
    • Countries
    • HONG KONG (CHINA), FRANCE, NETHERLANDS
    • Languages
    • CHINESE, RUSSIAN, UKRANIAN, JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 96 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Liang ZHAO
    • Synopsis
    • Anchored by a man whose quest humanizes global changes, this film traces the historical events and present situation of nuclear disaster across human society. Every nuclear site he revisits represents a specific temporality - Fukushima, Japan, as the ongoing present; Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, as the concealed past; Chernobyl, Ukraine, as the forever alienated present, and Onkalo, Finland, as the future of the future. The narrative created through deconstruction and reconstruction of histories provides a new space to reflect on nuclear issues. In this space, a panorama of global apocalyptic landscapes after nuclear disaster as well as the daily lives of humans on these land is brought to life. The film, visually futuristic yet close to cyberpunk science fiction, seeks to create a human allegory in the present.