YIDFF 2007 Screening List

International Competition

• Encounters [Pierre-Marie Goulet / PORTUGAL, FRANCE / 2006 / The Mayor’s Prize]
• FENGMING A Chinese Memoir [Wang Bing / CHINA / 2007 / The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize]
• I Am the One Who Brings Flowers to Her Grave [Hala Alabdalla, Ammar Albeik / SYRIA / 2006]
• Lick Salt—A Grandson’s Tale [Ryan Feldman / CANADA / 2006]
• M [Nicolás Prividera / ARGENTINA / 2007 / Runner-up Prize]
• The Monastery [Pernille Rose Grønkjær / DENMARK / 2006]
• Mr. Pilipenko and His Submarine [Jan Hinrik Drevs, René Harder / GERMANY / 2006 / Citizens’ Prize]
• Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers [Rithy Panh / FRANCE / 2006]
• Potosi, the Journey [Ron Havilio / ISRAEL, FRANCE / 2007 / Runner-up Prize]
• Protagonist [Jessica Yu / USA / 2006]
• Revolution [Jouko Aaltonen / FINLAND / 2006]
• Since You Left [Mohammad Bakri / PALESTINE, ISRAEL / 2006]
• Tarachime birth/mother [Kawase Naomi / JAPAN / 2006 / Special Prize]
• 12 Tangos: Adios Buenos Aires [Arne Birkenstock / GERMANY / 2005]
• Wild, Wild Beach [Alexander Rastorguev, Vitaly Mansky, Susanna Baranzhieva / RUSSIA, GERMANY / 2006]

Jurors’ Films

• Colossal Youth [Pedro Costa / PORTUGAL, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND / 2006]
• My Own Breathing [Byun Young-joo / KOREA / 1999]
• Syndromes and a Century [Apichatpong Weerasethakul / THAILAND, FRANCE, AUSTRIA / 2006]
• Takeshi Kitano, the Unpredictable [Jean-Pierre Limosin / FRANCE / 1999]
• Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises [Alanis Obomsawin / CANADA / 2006]
• Why Is Yellow Middle of the Rainbow? [Kidlat Tahimik / THE PHILIPPINES / 1994]

• Cinema Is about Documenting Lives: The Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto [Fujiwara Toshi / JAPAN / 2007]
• An Engineer’s Assistant [Tsuchimoto Noriaki / JAPAN / 1963]
• Fishing Moon [Tsuchimoto Noriaki / JAPAN / 1980]
• A History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess [Imamura Shohei / JAPAN / 1970]
• Magino Story—Pass [Ogawa Shinsuke / JAPAN / 1977]
• Nippon Theater—Toward Film Inspired by the Sea [Multi Screen Project / JAPAN / 2007]
• Silence Has No Wings [Kuroki Kazuo / JAPAN / 1966]

New Asian Currents

• Aki Ra’s Boys [Lynn Lee, James Leong / SINGAPORE, CAMBODIA / 2007]
• Back Drop Kurdistan [Nomoto Masaru / JAPAN, TURKEY, NEW ZEALAND / 2007 / Award of Excellence, Citizens’ Prize]
• Bare [Santana Issar / INDIA / 2006]
• Bingai [Feng Yan / CHINA / 2007 / Ogawa Shinsuke Prize, Community Cinema Award]
• Bishar Blues [Amitabh Chakraborty / INDIA / 2006]
• The Description of Bankruptcy [Lee Kang-hyun / KOREA / 2006]
• Dream Walking [Huang Wenhai / CHINA / 2005]
• The Drown Sea [Yuslam Fikri Anshari (Yufik) / INDONESIA / 2006 / Award of Excellence]
• Fragments of depopulation [Kimura Takuro, Miyoshi Hiroaki / JAPAN / 2007]
• Golden Dances [Ali Kalantari / IRAN / 2006]
• Hope Dies Last in War [Supriyo Sen / INDIA / 2007]
• Looking Through [Maani Petgar / IRAN, AUSTRALIA / 2007]
• 192-399: A Story about the House Living Together [Lee Hyun-jung / KOREA / 2006]
• OUT: Smashing Homophobia Project [Feminist Video Activism WOM / KOREA / 2007]
• Playing between Elephants [Aryo Danusiri / INDONESIA / 2007]
• Public Blue [Anke Haarmann [AHA] / JAPAN, GERMANY / 2007]
• Sift [Sally Van Gorder / USA, QUATAR / 2006]
• “Singing Queers” (Talk & Screening)
• Sister [Hu Xinyu / CHINA, USA / 2007]
• Somewhere over the Cloud [Hsiao Mei-ling / TAIWAN / 2007 / Special Mention]
• We Corner People [Kesang Tseten / NEPAL / 2007]

• Black Box Germany [Andres Veiel / 2001]
• Do Communists Have Better Sex? [André Meier / 2006]
• Eternal Beauty [Marcel Schwierin / 2003]
• The Fairy Tale of the Little Fish [Wolfgang Reinke / 2004]
• I Love You All [Eyal Sivan, Audrey Maurion / 2004]
• The Kick [Andres Veiel / 2005]
• Last to Know [Marc Bauder, Dörte Franke / 2006]
• My Life as a Terrorist: The Story of Hans-Joachim Klein [Alexander Oey / 2005]
• Locked Up Time [Sybille Schönemann / 1990]
• The Rebel: An Untold Story of European Terrorism [Jan Peter / 2005]
• Screenplay: The Times—Three Decades with the Children of Golzow and the DEFA Documentary Film Studio [Barbara & Winfried Junge / 1993]
• Sweep It Up, Swig It Down [Gerd Kroske / 1997]
• The Unknown Soldier [Michael Verhoeven / 2006]
• The Wall [Jürgen Böttcher / 1989-90]
• Winter’s Children [Jens Schanze / 2005]

• Acera, or the Witches’ Dance [Jean Painlevé / FRANCE / 1972]
• The Balance of Nature [Nunomura Tatsuru / JAPAN / 1972]
• The Birth of Frogs [Yoshida Rokuro/ JAPAN / 1955]
• The Black Sun [Miki Shigeru / JAPAN / 1936]
• The Bone II [Kobayashi Yonesaku, Kaneko Fumio / JAPAN / 1986]
• The Cabbage Butterfly [Haneda Sumiko / JAPAN / 1968]
• Cold, Colder, Coldest [Martin Rikli / GERMANY / 1937]
• Destruction [Sadamura Takeshi / JAPAN / 1973]
• The Fourth Dimension [Jean Painlevé / FRANCE /1937]
• A Grain of Barley [Matsukawa Yasuo / JAPAN / 1962]
• Green Drifters [Wolfram Junghans / GERMANY / 1933]
• The Life History of Slime Molds [Higuchi Genichiro / JAPAN / 1997]
• Life of a Cicada [Ota Nikichi / JAPAN / 1936]
• Liquid Crystals [Jean Painlevé / FRANCE / 1978]
• The Love Life of the Octopus [Jean Painlevé / FRANCE / 1965]
• Lubricating Oil [Takeuchi Shinji / JAPAN / 1960]
• Marine Snow: The Origin of Oil [Noda Shinkichi, Onuma Tetsuro / JAPAN / 1960]
• Mysteries of Life [Ulrich K.T. Schultz, Herta Jülich / GERMANY / 1937]
• Nagasaki Children [Higuchi Genichiro / JAPAN / 1949]
• One Day at the Tidelands [Shimomura Kenji / JAPAN / 1940]
• Pencil Rockets and Baby Rockets [Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo (IIS) / JAPAN / 1955]
• Predators of the Night [Ulrich K.T. Schultz, Wolfram Junghans / GERMANY / 1936]
• A Radio Telescope Bigger than the Earth [Makiguchi Mitsuro / JAPAN / 2005]
• The Road to X-Ray Astronomy [Yabe Masao / JAPAN / 1968]
• Roentgen Rays [Martin Rikli / GERMANY / 1937]
• Science Graffiti [Horikoshi Kei / JAPAN / 1984]
• The Sea Horse [Jean Painlevé / FRANCE / 1934]
• Sea Urchins [Jean Painlevé / FRANCE / 1954]
• Secret in the Hive [Higuchi Genichiro / JAPAN / 1962]
• Shrimp Stories [Jean Painlevé / FRANCE / 1964]
• Silent Battle: The Life of the Pine Moth [Higuchi Genichiro / JAPAN / 1955]
• Snow Crystals [Yoshino Keiji / JAPAN / 1939]
• The Stomach: The Elaborate Mechanism of Digestion [Takeda Junichiro, Tamai Jun / JAPAN / 2006]
• Things and Their Weight [Goto Ichiro / JAPAN / 1969]
• The Vampire [Jean Painlevé / FRANCE / 1939-45]
• The Wisdom of the Orangutan [Fujiwara Tomoko, Yamaguchi Junko / JAPAN / 1960]
• The World of Extreme Conditions [Ogawa Hirotaka / JAPAN / 1987]
• The World of the Vacuum [Nakamura Rinko / JAPAN / 1953]

• The Battle of Kawanakajima [Kinugasa Teinosuke / 1941]
• Bear Hunting on the Snowy Ridges [Tsukamoto Koji / 1936]
• Global Visual Workshop [YIDFF Organizing Committee / 2007]
• Grandfather’s Morning [Soyama Seiichi / 1940]
• Horse [Yamamoto Kajiro / 1941]
• Hunting Methods on Imperial Household Ministry Preserves: Plover Hunting [Tsukamoto Koji / 1936]
• If You Head West [Oki Yuko / 2007]
• Ishiwara Kanji’s Footage of Manchuria [circa 1930]
• Jamboys [Kagami Keigo / 2006]
• Kaminoyama City before and after the War [Hasegawa Kenzo / No date]
• Kurobe Gorge [Tsukamoto Koji / 1932]
• Mount Zao [Tsukamoto Koji / 1935]
• My Sin: Sakubei’s Story [Sasaki Tsunejiro / 1930]
• “Pathe News” [Tsukamoto Koji / 1927-28]
• The Port of Habu [Nezu Arata / 1929]
• Re: From: [Takahashi Yui / 2007]
• Rural March [Tsukamoto Koji / 1930]
• “Sawa-Talkie ‘Ah, My Hometown’”
• “Securing the Peace of the Land”: An Interview with Ishiwara Kanji [1946]
• Spring in the Imperial Capital [Tsukamoto Koji / 1932]
• Stone Roof: Restoration of Heishindo’s Cedar-Bark Shingle and Stone Roof [Institute for Cultural Property at Tohoku University of Art & Design, Kokunensha Foundation / 2005]
• Tanzawa, Kurokura River [Tsukamoto Koji / 1940]
• Tokyo March [Mizoguchi Kenji / 1929]
• Two people Sitting [Ichikawa Yusuke / 2007]
• Vanity Is Hell [Uchida Tomu / 1925]
• Zaru River: Blue Skies in May [Kobayashi Kaori / 2007]

• Air [Kawaguchi Hajime / 1992]
• Air Talk [Abe Tohko]
• Along the Southern Coast [Nakajima Takashi / 1971]
• Apr. 21st–22nd, 2007 [Kintaro]
• Berry X 4 [Nao]
• Blushing [Iwasawa Hiroki]
• Boronyago Street [Maeda Toshiyuki]
• Dancers [Shiozawa Teisuke]
• Danki [Fukuma Yoshio / 1983]
• Divine Retribution [Kunimitsu Hiroyuki]
• Dragonfly Glasses [Oki Masaharu / 2003]
• Dreaming of the Nakaya Apartments [Noto Masaru]
• Ecosystem 9 [Koike Teruo / 1993]
• The Editing Room at Night [Yoru no Henshushitsu]
• 8mm Shooter’s Death Sentence [Yamazaki Mikio]
• Fight! Kung Fu Wolf: The Final Chapter [Hotaruika P. D.]
• Filmy Film-010 Galileo Chamber [Miyata Yasuko / 2001]
• First Sight of View [Fukuma Yoshio / 1984]
• Five Knowing Glances [Shintaku Kengo]
• Fragile 42-Year-Old [Fukuma Yoshio / 1996]
• From Here to Where? [Katayama Kaoru]
• From the Ionosphere [Oki Masaharu / 2003]
• Fukuoka Paradise [Fukuma Yoshio / 1991]
• The Garden Just before Dawn [Oki Masaharu / 2003]
• Harappa [Mizuyoshi Yu]
• Haruka/Halka [Takato Akira]
• Hazukishui [Fukuma Yoshio / 1997]
• Hesitation [Ikeda Yasunori]
• High Touch [Abe Tohko / 2006]
• Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo [Yasutake Teruaki]
• H Railway [Masuda Naoyuki]
• Humie-san Film Alive [Manjome Jun]
• Imitating Gozo [Suzuki Shirouyasu / 1982]
• Lair of Light [Oki Masaharu / 2002]
• Living with a Cat by the Tama River [Uchimura Shigeta]
• Memory of Seaside [Yamazaki Mikio / 1982]
• Midnight Dance [Sasaki Ken]
• Mimizu [Fukuma Yoshio / 1986]
• Mizuumi [Abe Tohko / 2005]
• Mr. O’s Dream [Oki Masaharu / 2004]
• My Honeymoon [Uchimura Shigeta / 2002]
• No. [Miyata Yasuko]
• Nuthatch Seeds [Kato Itaru]
• Odessa [Fukuma Yoshio / 1985]
• One Step! [Tsukarin]
• On a Shutter [Fukuma Yoshio / 1982]
• “Personal Focus 2007 Extra” (26 Films)
• Pinholes and Teething Fever [Fukuma Yoshio / 2003]
• Plaza Hotel [Fukuma Yoshio / 2000]
• Predawn Kangaroo [Abe Tohko / 2007]
• Room 415 [Fukuma Yoshio / 2001]
• Run! Akio ’88 [Fukuma Yoshio / 1988]
• Saigon Market ’07 [THE MONDE no suke]
• Sakurai’s Move [Fukuma Yoshio / 1998]
• Scrap and Scrap [Shimizu Hiroyuki]
• September Dust Mites [Fukuma Yoshio / 1987]
• The Shepherd Boy’s Coronation [Oki Masaharu / 2003]
• Shimpu [Fukuma Yoshio / 1979]
• Shimpu—Sequel [Fukuma Yoshio / 1980]
• Sidewalk [Suwa Nozomu]
• The Small Boat [Ishii Hideto / 1992]
• The Stick [Kota Isao / 1974]
• Suginami Green [Kawaguchi Hajime]
• Sunlight Is a Miracle [Mizuyoshi Akira]
• Tin-Alley Daydream [Yamada Isao / 2005]
• To Mr. Fukuma [Sakurai Atsushi / 1993]
• To Sakurai [Fukuma Yoshio / 1994]
• Town Sketch [Kurooka Yoichi]
• 2005, Mars/Paris Kodachrome 40 [Ota Yo]
• Views [Nogami Suwami]
• Wakamizuya [Fukuma Yoshio / 1993]
• Wild Horses [Yajimachi Satoshi / 2004]
• The Woman with a Camera (A Descendant of the Vertov Family) [Sakurai Tomoyuki]
• Yacht Dance [Oki Masaharu / 2002]
• Yume no yukite [Fukuma Yoshio / 1978]

• The Ants [Ikeya Kaoru / 2005]
• Campaign [Soda Kazuhiro / 2007]
• Ghada: Songs of Palestine [Furui Mizue / JAPAN, PALESTINE / 2005]
• People Crossing the River [Kim Duk-chul / KOREA, JAPAN / 2007]
• A Permanent Part-timer in Distress [Iwabuchi Hiroki / 2007]
• The Women the War Left Behind [Azuma Shizu / 2007]

• The Cats of Mirikitani [Linda Hattendorf / USA / 2006]
• A Movie Capital Again [Iizuka Toshio / JAPAN / 2007]
• “Pahenlo Project” [Nakazawa Hideki, Sera Kyoko, Nishimura Tomomi, Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Maeda Shinjiro, Inagaki Kanako, Oki Hiroyuki / JAPAN / 2007]
• Pride in Blue [Nakamura Kazuhiko / JAPAN / 2007]