International Competition Films
Entries in Total: 1,153 Films out of 117 Countries and Areas
- The Act of Killing [Joshua Oppenheimer / DENMARK, INDONESIA, NORWAY, UK / 2012]
- Bajarí: Gypsy Barcelona [Eva Vila / SPAIN / 2012]
- Boundary [Nontawat Numbenchapol / THAILAND, CAMBODIA, FRANCE / 2013]
- Char . . . The No-man’s Island [Sourav Sarangi / JAPAN, INDIA, ITALY, NORWAY, DENMARK / 2012]
- A Gift from the Sky—The Tragedy of Hsiaolin Village, Part 2 [Lo Shin-chieh, Wang Hsiu-ling / TAIWAN / 2013]
- Motherland or Death [Vitaly Mansky / RUSSIA / 2011]
- Once I Entered a Garden [Avi Mograbi / FRANCE, ISRAEL, SWITZERLAND / 2012]
- The Other Day [Ignacio Agüero / CHILE / 2012]
- Parts of a Family [Diego Gutiérrez / THE NETHERLANDS, MEXICO / 2012]
- The Punk Syndrome [Jukka Kärkkäinen, J-P Passi / FINLAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN / 2012]
- Revision [Philip Scheffner / GERMANY / 2012]
- Stories We Tell [Sarah Polley / CANADA / 2012]
- Tour of Duty [Kim Dong-ryung, Park Kyoung-tae / KOREA / 2013]
- Voices from the Waves [Sakai Ko, Hamaguchi Ryusuke / JAPAN / 2013]
- A World Not Ours [Mahdi Fleifel / PALESTINE, UAE, UK / 2012]
(Alphabetically shown)
A program that began with the very first YIDFF. Feature-length works were sought from around the world, and from the 1,153 entries emerges a stringent selection of 15 cinematic gems, richly varied and representing the vanguard of world filmmaking.
Venues: Yamagata Central Public Hall 6F, Yamagata Citizens’ Hall (Large Hall)