I’M SO SORRY

100 min｜2021｜France, China, Hong Kong, Netherlands

• Director: Zhao Liang

• Producers: Zhao Liang, Ruby Chen, Jia Zhao (Zhao’s Image production limited), Serge Lalou, Valérie Guérin (Les Films d’Ici), Arte France

• Festivals, Prizes: Special selection Cannes 2021

• Thematics: Nuclear disasters , Semipalatinsk, Tchernobyl, Fukushima, Onkalo

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.