My God Never Dies

Nearly twenty years ago, a Muslim refugee whose face we don’t get to see crossed the border of Myanmar, a country plagued by ethnic-religious conflict. He has since been unsuccessfully applying for asylum in Japan. Deprived of the opportunity to work and live outside a refugee facility, the now-40-year-old man turns to Allah as his last hope for human dignity.

  • Daichi Amano
    Director
  • Daichi Amano
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    17 minutes 45 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 15, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    1,000,000 JPY
  • Country of Origin:
    Japan
  • Country of Filming:
    Japan
  • Language:
    Japanese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
    Ji.hlava, Czech Republic
    Czech Republic
    October 27, 2019
    World Premiere
    Short Joy (Competition)
Director Biography - Daichi Amano

Daichi Amano is a filmmaker based in Tokyo. While enrolled at California Institute of the Arts, he made experimental documentaries which were screened in film festivals in Los Angeles.
Currently he develops a series of film projects focusing on refugees in Japan.

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Director Statement

0.1%. This is an acceptance rate of refugee status applications in Japan.

On the outskirts of this homogeneous country, I met a guy whose application for asylum has been ignored for nearly 20 years.

He allowed me to film his life, only under anonymity. He told me in the first place: “Nobody really understands one’s emotional scar. Even if you do, it’s superficial.”

As he said, the camera does record the feeling of helplessness. But I kept filming because I wanted to understand -even just a little.