>> Catalog 2023

Index by title

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International Competition (IC), Juror Films (JUROR), New Asian Currents (NAC), Special Invitation Films (SI), Perspectives Japan (JP), Noda Shinkichi Retrospective: A Festival of Things and Life (NS), Double Shadows 3: People Who Transport Films (DS), Yamagata and Film (YF), Cinema with Us 2023 (CU), Film Letter to the Future (FL), View People View Cities—The World of UNESCO Creative Cities (UCC), Yamagata Rough Cut! (YR), Enchanting Tohoku through Open-air Cinema!! (TOHOKU), Taiwan Docs Inside Out (TAIWAN), YIDFF Network Special Screening (NET)

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A, B

Above and Below the Ground (NAC) Anhell69 (IC) Aqueducts (UCC) ------------------------------ Beppie (FL) Blueprint of a Pleasure Machine (DS) Boja (UCC)

Bou Sho (YR) Breathe (UCC) Bring Min’yo Back! (TOHOKU) Broken Whispers (NAC) A Bunch of Amateurs (DS) (TOHOKU) The Bus Station (IC)

C, D

Carrying the Olympics (NS) Chlorine Addiction (JUROR) A City with Orchestras (UCC) Colaholic (UCC) Collapsed Swamp, or Painter Yamashita Kikuji (NS) Comradeship (YR)

Country Life Under Snow (NS) Crazy (SI) Crossing Voices (IC) ------------------------------ The Daughters of Fire (SI)

E, F

Eastern Front (IC) Eastwood (DS) Encounters on an Uncertain Spring (NAC) ------------------------------ The Feast of the Gods on a Winter’s Night: Toyama’s Shimotsuki Festival (NS)

Festivals in Tohoku Part 1 (NS) Festivals in Tohoku Part 2 (NS) Festivals in Tohoku Part 3 (NS) The Film You are About to See (DS) Flickering Lights (NAC) Forgotten Land: Record of Life Series II (NS) Fruits and Vegetables (UCC)

G, H

GAMA (NAC) The Girl of the Valley (NS) Good Road for the Living and the Dead: Niino Bon Odori, Festival to Send Off the Gods (NS) ------------------------------ Here and Here (UCC) Herman Slobbe / Blind Child 2 (FL)

“hibi” AUG (IC) Hijiori Onsen and Prince Nobuhito (TOHOKU) Hijiori Onsen in Snow (TOHOKU) Homemade Stories (NAC) The Horse-running Ritual of Honmoku Shrine (NS) How To Thrive In 2050: 8 Tentacular Workouts For A Tantalising Future! (JUROR)

I, J

The Island (IC)

Journey of a Bird (NAC) June 1960: Rage Against the Security Treaty (NS)

K, L

Kim’s Video (DS) Knit’s Island (IC) ------------------------------ Land of My Dreams (NAC) Late August (UCC) The Lion Dance of Toya (NS)

The List (SI) The Locomotive Kid (NS) The Loneliness of Two Long Distance Runners (NS) Losing Ground (NAC) A Lost Heart and Other Dreams of Beirut (NAC) Luo Luo’s Youth (NAC)

M, N

Marine Snow: The Origin of Oil (NS) The Matsukawa Incident: Seeing the Truth Through the Wall (NS) Men with Movie Cameras—Shooting the Great Kanto Earthquake (JP) The Mikagura Festival of Tomiyama Village (NS) A Million Prayers for Amitabha Buddha and the Lion Dance of Yozuku (NS) Miura Kikuna’s Ameya Dance (NS) Mizutani Isao’s Wanderings through Ten Spiritual Worlds (NS)

The New Japanese Geography Film Series: The Roofs of Honshu (NS) The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Tokaido, Yesterday and Today (NS) The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Tone River (NS) The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Villages of the Northeast (NS) A Night of Knowing Nothing (IC) Night Walk (NAC) Nihonbara Diary (JP) Nitiray A La Carte (NS) Notes for a Film (IC) Nowhere Near (NAC)

O, P

Oasis (JP) Our Faith / Nuestra Fe (YR) ------------------------------ Parallel World (NAC) (TAIWAN)

The Power of Film Against the Landscape—From Yamagata to Bradford (UCC) The Power of Speech (SI) The Procession of Weird and Wonderful Masks (NS) Puay Chai (YR)

Q, R

Radiance (NAC) Radio Shimo-Kajiro: The Songs that Led Us Here Today (CU) (TOHOKU) Raise Me a Memory (NAC)

Renovating Farm Houses (NS) Rising Sun, Why So Red—70 Years After the War: A Farmer Poet’s Journey (YF) Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus (SI)

S, T

Sagicho in Oiso (NS) The Sake of Yamagata: Mount Zao’s Blessing (UCC) Sarushima Island with a Fort: Ruins and Graffiti (NS) Saving a Dragonfly (NAC) Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020 (IC) The Shadowless Tower (JUROR) Shin Gocha Maze Koze: Mada Michi Nakaba (NET) Silent Witnesses (DS) Snow as Flowers: Niino’s Snow Festival (NS) Snow Poem (YF) Sona, The Other Myself (JUROR)

The Sound of Waves (CU) The Swaying Spirit (JUROR) ------------------------------ Tales of the Purple House (IC) Tan: The Way of the Master Swordsmith Kanbayashi Tsunehira (UCC) Technique of Foundry: The Cupola Operation (NS) Three Women (IC) A Town Not Yet Seen (NS) Trip to Lost Days (NAC) Tsushima: Fukushima Speaks Part 2 (CU) Tying Land and Sea (NS)

U, V

Under One Roof (UCC) The Unforgivable Atom Bomb: The Singing Voice of 1954 Japan (NS) The Unstable Object II (IC) Until the Stones Speak (NAC)

The Visit and a Secret Garden (IC) A Voiceless Cry (YF)

W, X

Warabinokou: To the Bracken Fields (YF) What About China? (IC) What Should We Have Done? (JP) With Each Passing Breath (JP)

Work in Retail (NS) The Workers of Keihin 1953 (NS) Worn Away (JUROR)

Y, Z

Yamagata × Wagashi—A Future Built on Tradition (UCC) Yoshihama’s Kashima Dance, Ashigara’s Sasara Dance (NS) Young Cinema (DS) Your Lovely Smile (JUROR) ------------------------------ Zinzindurrunkarratz (JUROR) (DS)