YIDFF 2025 Screening List
| International Competition | Special Invitation Films | New Asian Currents | Perspectives Japan |
| Yamagata Rough Cut! | Unscripted: The Art of Direct Cinema | Palestine—Memory of the Land |
| Yamagata and Film | Cinema with Us 2025 | Film Letter to the Future | View People View Cities |
| YIDFF Classics on Digital | Cinematic Heritage in Our Communities | YIDFF Network Special Screening |
| Yamagata Rough Cut! | Unscripted: The Art of Direct Cinema | Palestine—Memory of the Land |
| Yamagata and Film | Cinema with Us 2025 | Film Letter to the Future | View People View Cities |
| YIDFF Classics on Digital | Cinematic Heritage in Our Communities | YIDFF Network Special Screening |
International Competition
- Another Home [Frankie Sin / TAIWAN, HONG KONG, FRANCE / 2024]
- Below the Clouds [Gianfranco Rosi / ITALY / 2025]
- DIRECT ACTION [Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell / GERMANY, FRANCE, KOREA / 2024 / The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize (The Grand Prize)]
- L’Homme-Vertige: Tales of a City [Malaury Eloi Paisley / FRANCE, GUADELOUPE / 2024 / Special Mention]
- I Was, I Am, and I Will Be! [Itakura Yoshiyuki / JAPAN / 2025]
- Letters to My Dead Parents [Ignacio Agüero / CHILE / 2025 / Special Jury Prize]
- Malqueridas [Tana Gilbert / CHILE, GERMANY / 2023 / Flex International Award (Award of Excellence)]
- Park [So Yo-Hen / TAIWAN / 2024 / Denroku Award (Award of Excellence)]
- Rising Up at Night [Nelson Makengo / CONGO (DRC), BELGIUM, GERMANY, BURKINA FASO, QATAR / 2024]
- The Seasons [Maureen Fazendeiro / PORTUGAL, FRANCE, AUSTRIA, SPAIN / 2025]
- Time to the Target [Vitaly Mansky / LATVIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, UKRAINE / 2025]
- TrepaNation [Ammar al-Beik / SYRIA, FRANCE, GERMANY / 2025]
- Welded Together [Anastasiya Miroshnichenko / FRANCE, THE NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM / 2025]
- A Window of Memories [Kiyohara Yui / JAPAN / 2023]
- With Hasan in Gaza [Kamal Aljafari / PALESTINE, GERMANY, FRANCE, QATAR / 2025 / The Mayor’s Prize]
Jurors’ Films
- Looking for Robert
- Someone’s Wife in the Boat of Someone’s Husband
- Kings and Extras
- Labyrinth of Dreams
- Keep Your Left Hand Down
- Someone to Sing Over Me
- The City of Bougainvillea
- Dear Young Lady, a Sheet of Record
Special Invitation Films
- American Direct Cinema Special Selection
- Good Valley Stories
- Narita: Heta Village
- Why Is Yellow Middle of Rainbow?
- The Voices of the Silenced
New Asian Currents
- 3350 KM [Sara Kontar / SYRIA, FRANCE / 2023]
- Collective Dreams Stitched into December [Bappadittya Sarkar / INDIA / 2025]
- CycleMahesh [Suhel Banerjee / INDIA / 2024]
- Dancing Palestine [Lamees Almakkawy / PALESTINE, UK / 2024]
- Hair, Paper, Water... [Trương Minh Quý, Nicolas Graux / BELGIUM, FRANCE / 2025]
- Hakishka [Narges Judaki, Iman Paknahad / IRAN / 2024]
- The Last Visit [Keawalee Warutkomain / ESTONIA, THAILAND / 2023]
- Luo Luo’s Future [Luo Luo / CHINA / 2024]
- No Exorcism Film [Komtouch Napattaloong / THAILAND / 2024]
- Shot the Voice of Freedom [Zainab Entezar / AFGHANISTAN / 2024]
- SIE... [Yosef Levi / INDONESIA / 2024]
- The Silent Path [Yonri Revolt / INDONESIA / 2024]
- SPI [Sayun Simung / TAIWAN / 2025]
- A Stone’s Throw [Razan AlSalah / PALESTINE, LEBANON, CANADA / 2024]
- The Tales of the Tale [Song Cheng-ying, Hu Chin-ya / TAIWAN / 2024 / Tohoku Denka Kogyo Award (Award of Excellence)]
- Track_ing [Lee Chanyeol, Cho Hanna, Samgar Rakym, Ali Tynybekov / KOREA, KAZAKHSTAN / 2024]
- What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov? [Faraz Fesharaki / GERMANY / 2024 / Ogawa Shinsuke Prize]
- When the Trees Sway, the Heart Stirs [Lee Jiyoon / KOREA / 2025 / The Yamagata Shimbun and YBC Award (Award of Excellence)]
- Writing Hawa [Najiba Noori, Rasul (Ali) Noori / FRANCE, THE NETHERLANDS, QATAR, AFGHANISTAN / 2024 / Citizens’ Prize]
- You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer [Max Ferguson / BELGIUM, HONG KONG / 2023]
Perspectives Japan
- Appalachian Lenses [Kasezawa Atsushi / JAPAN / 2024]
- Don’t Shoot My Back—The Life of Actor Junkichi Orimoto [Nakamura Yumi / JAPAN / 2024]
- My Blue Heaven [Murakami Hiroyasu / JAPAN / 2024]
- Spring, On the Shores of Aga [Komori Haruka / JAPAN / 2025]
- The Yoshida-ryo Dormitory [Fujikawa Keizo / JAPAN / 2025]
- Special Collaborative Screening The Shape of the Wind [Tanaka Kenta/ JAPAN / 2023]
Yamagata Rough Cut!
Unscripted: The Art of Direct Cinema
- Japanese Surrender Preliminaries in China, Chihkiang
- Arrival of Sir William Slim, Rangoon
- Generals Inspect British 36th Div Headquarters
- The Young Fighter (The Young Fighter: A Reality Film)
- Jazz Dance
- On the Bowery
- Les raquetteurs
- The Days Before Christmas
- Emergency Ward
- Wrestling (La lutte)
- Primary
- Yanki No!
- Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
- Faces of November
- The Chair
- Happy Mother’s Day
- Dont Look Back
- Cicero March
- Law and Order
- Chiefs
- Home For Life
- Meet Marlon Brando
- Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barber Shops)
- Breaking it Up at the Museum
- You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
- Cut Piece, 1964/1965
- Monterey Pop
- The House at Pooneil Corners (excerpt from 1 P.M.)
- Gimme Shelter
- Grey Gardens
- Harlan County, USA
- Forest of Bliss
- Seventeen
- The War Room
- Panola
Palestine—Memory of the Land
- Fertile Memory
- A Magical Substance Flows into Me
- A Fidai Film
- Light Horizon
- To a Land Unknown
- Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza
- With Hasan in Gaza
- Kings and Extras
Yamagata and Film
- A Movie Capital
- Mirror Works ’89: Yamagata Central Public Hall
- Feb 11, 1990 Rough Cut Screening: The Other Version
- 8mm Film by Dr. Ting Ray-yü
- 8mm Film by Photographer Hsu Tsang-tse
- 16mm Film by Sato Kyukichi
- 8mm Film by Masuya Jiro
- Return: Yamagata × Hualien 1960s
- The Three Shonais: The Land of Dreams for Outsiders
- Dekunobo: War and PTSD
- “150 Years of Cherry Cultivation”: The Ruby-like Treasures that Connect with the Future
- Do We Go against the Times?: The Two “Nohs” of Kurokawa
- A Natural Look: 900 Days with a “Gal” in a Wheelchair
- In Love with Baseball! Another Story: 1100 Days with the Seizan High School Girl’s Hardball Baseball Club
- 45 Years of Overtures: Challenges of the Yamagata Symphony Orchestra
- The Ruptured Railway: The Resolution Needed to Restore the Yonesaka Line
- Sharing the Appeal of Zao Hot Springs
- Hikari no Seiso: A Visual Collection from the Former Yoshiike Clinic with Original Theme Music
- Modernization Heritage of Yamagata
- Song of the Craftsmen: Documenting the Restoration of the Former Yamagata Prefectural Office, an Important Cultural Property
- The Man Who Saw Yokai: The World of Ito Chuta, a Giant of Modern Architecture
- Madame soie Cévennes
Cinema with Us 2025
Film Letter to the Future
View People View Cities—The World of UNESCO Creative Cities
- As Day Goes By [Ngima Gelu Sherpa / NEPAL / 2024]
- The Demands of Ordinary Devotion [Eva Giolo / ITALY, BELGIUM / 2021]
- The House Within [Joshua Prendeville / NEW ZEALAND / 2024]
- Siesta [Sofia Mora / ARGENTINA / 2009]
- Stopover [Mariusz Biernacki / POLAND / 2023]
- Such a Beautiful Town [Marta Koch / POLAND / 2019]
- To Insist [Luna Mato Chague / ARGENTINA / 2023]
- Reunion 35 Years of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival [Nagaoka Hiroaki / JAPAN / 2024]
- Memories That Sheep Carry Genghis Khan in Zao Onsen [Fuse Kaho / JAPAN / 2024]
- Sunny Spot Story of a Beloved Local Supermarket [Nagaoka Hiroaki / JAPAN / 2025]
- The Writers of Dewa [Sato Koichi / JAPAN / 2025]