Tohoku no shingetsu

Shingetsu means new moon in English. I think the reason why she named her film about Tohoku as she might wanted people who watched it to feel about something important  which is invisible. Even though other people try to understand the situation or feelings of victims of the earthquake, they can't understand completely because they did not exactly experience the disaster.  As the Jesus Christ says, visible things are limited yet invisible things exist forever. That is why we people suffer the emotional pain even if we get back our daily life after such disasters.