Fukushima

James Jones / United Kingdom / 2026 / World Premiere / 90 min

March 11, 2011 started out as a normal day. But before it was over, Japan had been hit by three unimaginable disasters and the rest of the world held its breath. A massive earthquake created a violent tsunami that washed away roads and buildings before hitting the Fukushima nuclear power plant, which ended up exploding. If the reactor core had melted through the bottom of the power plant, the northern half of Japan – where Tokyo is located – would have become uninhabitable.

‘Fukushima’ recounts the day hour by hour. It is nerve-wracking, to say the least. But in a true scoop, the story is told with unprecedented access to ‘The Fukushima 50’, the brave group of employees who stayed behind in Fukushima and risked their lives to try to restart the cooling system and prevent a catastrophic meltdown – and who videotaped their desperate work from inside the plant while it was all happening. James Jones (‘Antidote’) masterfully weaves together the threads of this dramatic story, which is essential viewing at a time when nuclear power is once again on the rise.