Okurimono (2024)

Okurimono is a 2024 Canadian documentary film directed and written by Laurence Lévesque. The film centres on Noriko, a Japanese Canadian woman returning home to Japan to after her mother's death, where she seeks to find a greater understanding of her mother's experience as a hibakusha, a survivor of the atomic bomb at Nagasaki in 1945. The film went into production in 2022 under the working title Mama no himitsu. The film premiered at the 2024 Visions du Réel documentary film festival, and had its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival.