Akio Fujimoto

Director at DIFF 2026

Akio Fujimoto is a Japanese filmmaker born in Osaka. He studied film at university and trained in fiction and documentary filmmaking, developing a body of work focused on social margins and migration across Asia. His short films include Psychedelic Family (2012) and Bleached Bones Avenue (2020), followed by the feature films Passages of Life (2017) and Along the Sea (2020).