International Competition Films
Entries in Total: 1,146 Films out of 121 Countries and Areas
• October 6–10 [Venues] Yamagata Central Public Hall 6F ‹YC›, Yamagata Citizens’ Hall (Large Hall) ‹CL›
A program that began with the very first YIDFF. Feature-length works were sought from around the world, and from the 1,146 entries emerges a stringent selection of 15 cinematic gems, richly varied and representing the vanguard of world filmmaking.
- Another Year [Zhu Shengze / CHINA / 2016]
- Calabria [Pierre-François Sauter / SWITZERLAND / 2016]
- Communion [Anna Zamecka / POLAND / 2016]
- Donkeyote [Chico Pereira / SPAIN, GERMANY, UK / 2017]
- Ex Libris—The New York Public Library [Frederick Wiseman / USA / 2016]
- A House in Ninh Hoa [Philip Widmann / GERMANY / 2016]
- I Am Not Your Negro [Raoul Peck / USA, FRANCE, BELGIUM, SWITZERLAND / 2016]
- In the Intense Now [João Moreira Salles / BRAZIL / 2017]
- Lone Existence [Sha Qing / CHINA / 2016]
- Machines [Rahul Jain / INDIA, GERMANY, FINLAND / 2016]
- A Memory in Khaki [Alfoz Tanjour / QATAR / 2016]
- Sennan Asbestos Disaster [Hara Kazuo / JAPAN / 2017]
- A Strange Love Affair with Ego [Ester Gould / THE NETHERLANDS / 2015]
- Tremorings of Hope [Agatsuma Kazuki / JAPAN / 2017]
- Wake (Subic) [John Gianvito / USA, THE PHILIPPINES / 2015]
(Alphabetically shown)