>> Catalog 2023

Index by country

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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

ARGENTINA The Bus Station (IC)

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA Boja (UCC)

C, D

CHILE Notes for a Film (IC) CHINA Luo Luo’s Youth (NAC) Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020 (IC) The Shadowless Tower (JUROR) Trip to Lost Days (NAC) Under One Roof (UCC) What About China? (IC)

COLOMBIA Anhell69 (IC) Silent Witnesses (DS) CZECH Eastern Front (IC)

E, F

EGYPT Homemade Stories (NAC) ESTONIA Raise Me a Memory (NAC) FRANCE Anhell69 (IC) Crossing Voices (IC) The Film You are About to See (DS) The Island (IC) Knit’s Island (IC)

A Lost Heart and Other Dreams of Beirut A Night of Knowing Nothing (IC) Notes for a Film (IC) The Power of Speech (SI) Silent Witnesses (DS) Tales of the Purple House (IC) Under One Roof (UCC) Young Cinema (DS)

G, H

GERMANY Anhell69 (IC) Crossing Voices (IC) Three Women (IC)

HUNGARY Encounters on an Uncertain Spring (NAC)

I, J

INDIA Blueprint of a Pleasure Machine (DS) Flickering Lights (NAC) Land of My Dreams (NAC) A Night of Knowing Nothing (IC) IRAN Broken Whispers (NAC) Eastwood (DS) IRAQ Tales of the Purple House (IC) ITALY Late August (UCC) JAPAN Bou Sho (YR) Bring Min’yo Back! (TOHOKU) Carrying the Olympics (NS) A City with Orchestras (UCC) Collapsed Swamp, or Painter Yamashita Kikuji (NS) Country Life Under Snow (NS) 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) Forgotten Land: Record of Life Series II (NS) 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) “hibi” AUG (IC) Hijiori Onsen and Prince Nobuhito (TOHOKU) Hijiori Onsen in Snow (TOHOKU) The Horse-running Ritual of Honmoku Shrine (NS) June 1960: Rage Against the Security Treaty (NS) The Lion Dance of Toya (NS) The Locomotive Kid (NS) The Loneliness of Two Long Distance Runners (NS) 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) Nihonbara Diary (JP) Nitiray A La Carte (NS) Oasis (JP) Our Faith / Nuestra Fe (YR) The Power of Film Against the Landscape—From Yamagata to Bradford (UCC) The Procession of Weird and Wonderful Masks (NS) Radiance (NAC) Radio Shimo-Kajiro: The Songs that Led Us Here Today (CU) (TOHOKU) Renovating Farm Houses (NS) Rising Sun, Why So Red—70 Years After the War: A Farmer Poet’s Journey (YF) Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus (SI) Sagicho in Oiso (NS) The Sake of Yamagata: Mount Zao’s Blessing (UCC) Sarushima Island with a Fort: Ruins and Graffiti (NS) Shin Gocha Maze Koze: Mada Michi Nakaba (NET) 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) Tan: The Way of the Master Swordsmith Kanbayashi Tsunehira (UCC) Technique of Foundry: The Cupola Operation (NS) A Town Not Yet Seen (NS) Tsushima: Fukushima Speaks Part 2 (CU) Tying Land and Sea (NS) The Unforgivable Atom Bomb: The Singing Voice of 1954 Japan (NS) A Voiceless Cry (YF) Warabinokou: To the Bracken Fields (YF) What Should We Have Done? (JP) With Each Passing Breath (JP) Work in Retail (NS) The Workers of Keihin 1953 (NS) Yamagata × Wagashi—A Future Built on Tradition (UCC) Yoshihama’s Kashima Dance, Ashigara’s Sasara Dance (NS) Your Lovely Smile (JUROR)

K, L

KOREA Here and Here (UCC) Night Walk (NAC) Saving a Dragonfly (NAC) Sona, The Other Myself (JUROR) Until the Stones Speak (NAC)

LATVIA Eastern Front (IC) LEBANON Encounters on an Uncertain Spring (NAC) Tales of the Purple House (IC)

M, N

MALAYSIA Puay Chai (YR) MALI Crossing Voices (IC) MYANMAR Above and Below the Ground (NAC) Comradeship (YR) Journey of a Bird (NAC) Losing Ground (NAC)

THE NETHERLANDS Beppie (FL) Crazy (SI) Herman Slobbe / Blind Child 2 (FL)

O, P

THE PHILIPPINES Nowhere Near (NAC) POLAND Breathe (UCC) Colaholic (UCC) Fruits and Vegetables (UCC)

PORTUGAL The Daughters of Fire (SI) Encounters on an Uncertain Spring (NAC) The Visit and a Secret Garden (IC)

Q, R

ROMANIA Anhell69 (IC)

S, T

SINGAPORE Chlorine Addiction (JUROR) Trip to Lost Days (NAC) SPAIN Aqueducts (UCC) Boja (UCC) The Visit and a Secret Garden (IC) Zinzindurrunkarratz (JUROR) (DS)

SYRIA Broken Whispers (NAC) Homemade Stories (NAC) TAIWAN Parallel World (NAC) (TAIWAN) Worn Away (JUROR) THAILAND Above and Below the Ground (NAC)

U, V

UK Boja (UCC) A Bunch of Amateurs (DS) (TOHOKU) How To Thrive In 2050: 8 Tentacular Workouts For A Tantalising Future! (JUROR) The List (SI) The Power of Film Against the Landscape—From Yamagata to Bradford (UCC)

UKRAINE Eastern Front (IC) USA Above and Below the Ground (NAC) Eastern Front (IC) Kim’s Video (DS) The Unstable Object II (IC) What About China? (IC)