Two feature films in which family members travel the world and back in time to understand more about deceased relatives from the WWII era.

THE POSTMAN OF NAGASAKI (Mika Kawase | Japan)

When Isabelle was 24, she read The Postman of Nagasaki, a book written by her father, Peter Townsend, about a young postman named Sumiteru Taniguchi who survived the atomic bombing. Decades later, when she learns of Taniguchi’s death, Isabelle sets off to Nagasaki with recordings from her father’s final trip to Japan. There, she discovers what had prompted Townsend to write his book and capture Taniguchi’s story.

8 SECONDS (MJean-Marie Vinclair | France)

In 2005, when filmmaker Jean-Marie Vinclair filmed the unveiling of the ‘Raymond Vinclair’ plaque in the square that will bear his name, he was stunned: why was this relative, who died as a martyr in Germany during the Second World War, unknown to his own family? A few years later, his family embark on a quest to find the thread of this lost memory.