Lost & Found (Free Film Screening + Director Q&A)

On March 11, 2011, Japan was hit by the largest earthquake in its recorded history. The ensuing tsunami engulfed over 90 cities, killing more then 18,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousands of families homeless. Millions of tons of debris pulled into the Pacific Ocean that day and floated towards the Pacific North West. Entire homes, boats, the remnants of people’s lives lost to sea.

Then the unimaginable happened – just under one year later, the first of the tsunami debris started washing ashore in North America and beachcombers did not let it go unnoticed. People all across the Pacific North West started finding items washed ashore from the Japanese tsunami and became determined to trace them back to their original owners. Lost & Found follows the epic adventures of regular citizens who leave their small towns (some for the first time) to travel to Japan in hopes to reunite people with some small piece of their past.

People across 3 countries, 2 continents, who are separated by the largest body of water on earth are coming together to share in the memories, mourn the loses and find great joy in the reuniting of something once thought to be lost forever but has now been found.

Please note: this film contains footages of the tsunami, and deals with natural disaster, loss, and death.

After the screening, director Nicolina Lanni will join for a Q&A.

Free Admission. Registration Required.

Please note that JFT staff will be taking photographs during this event for promotional and documentation purposes. If you prefer not to be photographed, please feel free to let a staff member know. Thank you for your understanding.

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Host or Publisher The Japan Foundation, Toronto