Akio Fujimoto

Akio Fujimoto is a Japanese director born in Osaka. He studied film at university and training in fiction and documentary filmmaking, developing a cinema focusing on social margins and migratory trajectories in Asia. After the short films Psychedelic Family (2012) and Bleached Bones Avenue (2020), he directed the features Passages of Life (2017) and Along the Sea (2020). Lost Land won the Orizzonti Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2025.