A MILLION

一百万

By Arata MORI

OSSA FILM - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2021

Impressions of an imaginary city, filmed on the background of the Chinese zeal for globalization: contexts of meaning and geographical borders blur and reconstitute themselves.

Festivals
& Awards

64th DOK Leipzig Official Selection for Camera Lucida section 2021
    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Documentary, Experimental
    • Countries
    • JAPAN, GERMANY
    • Duration
    • 65 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Arata MORI
    • Producer(s)
    • Arata MORI (Mori Film), Andreas HARTMANN (OSSA FILM)
    • Synopsis
    • Emilione, a million lies - so people nicknamed Marco Polo. They doubted his astonishing journey to the east. “A Million” depicts an imaginary city on the real urban cities along the new silk road - revived by the Chinese initiative's alternative globalization - through the eyes of a filmmaker from the east. The visual adaptation of Italo Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” confronts a fabricated, materialistic world in political transformation and wanders over the boundary between truth and fake.