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2025-10-20	Award Recipients: Jury Comments (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-10-18	Photo of Farewell Party (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-10-15	Award-winning works will be screened! (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-10-15	YIDFF 2025 Award Recipients (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-08-21	YIDFF Network Special Screening (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-08-13	New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films Perspectives Japan Cinema with Us 2025 Film Letter to the Future Yamagata Rough Cut! YIDFF Classics on Digital Cinematic Heritage in Our Communities Events Festival Venues Access Tickets (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-07-17	Call for Applications: YIDFF 2025 Film Criticism Workshop (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-07-08	International Competition Lineup YIDFF 2025 Official Poster Design (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-05-24	YIDFF 2025 Overview Programs American Direct Cinema Palestine—Memory of the Land Yamagata and Film View People View Cities—The World of UNESCO Creative Cities 2025 Call for Yamagata Rough Cut! Participants Related Events (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-05-16	Official open call for entries ended.
2025-04-17	YIDFF 2025 Call for Entries: Deadline for the New Asian Currents is Approaching!
2025-03-17	YIDFF 2025 Call for Entries: Deadline for the International Competition is Approaching!
2024-12-09	YIDFF 2025 Call for Entries: First Deadline Is Approaching!
2024-09-01	YIDFF 2025 Call for Entries (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2024-07-29	Poster Design (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2024-07-29	Announcement of Dates for YIDFF 2025! Call for Entries for YIDFF 2025
2024-07-01	YIDFF 2025 Information View People View Cities—The World of UNESCO Creative Cities 2025: Call for Entries (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2024-05-27	Conversations with Documentary: YIDFF 2023 Interview Collection (Interviews)
2024-03-29	YIDFF 2023 Visual Booklet (Publications)
2023-11-20	Sales: Catalog (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-10-17	Award Recipients: Jury Comments (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-10-14	Photo of Farewell Party (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-10-11	Award-winning works will be screened! (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-10-11	YIDFF 2023 Award Recipients (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-08-23	Festival Venues Access Tickets (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-08-05	New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films Perspectives Japan Noda Shinkichi Retrospective: A Festival of Things and Life Double Shadows 3 Yamagata and Film Cinema with Us 2023 Film Letter to the Future Yamagata Rough Cut! (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-07-10	International Competition Lineup YIDFF 2023 Official Poster Design (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-05-21	YIDFF 2023 Overview View People View Cities—The World of UNESCO Creative Cities (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-05-16	Official open call for entries ended.
2023-05-10	Call for Yamagata Rough Cut! Participants (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-04-17	YIDFF 2023 Call for Entries: Deadline for New Asian Currents Approaches!
2023-03-25	YIDFF 2023 Call for Entries: Deadline for the International Competition is Approaching!
2022-12-13	YIDFF 2023 Call for Entries: First Deadline Is Approaching!
2022-09-01	YIDFF 2023 Call for Entries (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2022-07-29	Poster Design (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2022-07-29	Announcement of Dates for YIDFF 2023! Call for Entries for YIDFF 2023
2022-07-01	YIDFF 2023 Information View People View Cities—The World of UNESCO Creative Cities: Call for Entries (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2022-06-22	“Dr. Markus’ Yamagata Musings” is now available on Docu-Yama Live!
2022-03-23	YIDFF 2021 Visual Booklet (Publications)
2022-01-12	Sharing Air, Living Time: January event (YIDFF 2021 Information)
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From the YIDFF Office

2025-01-23	New Year’s Greetings
2024-08-16	In Memoriam
2024-01-28	New Year’s Greetings
2023-11-29	YIDFF 2023: The Festival is Over
2023-01-21	Happy New Year!
2022-12-13	YIDFF 2021 on the Big Screen
2022-12-13	Remembering Takahashi Takuya
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Workshop

2024-02-29	Yamagata Bunka no Kairo Festival 2024 / Yamagin Kenmin Hall Open House 2024: Kids Film Workshop
2023-11-29	Yamagata Documentary Dojo 6 Open call for entries 26-day residency in Feb. 2024!
2023-04-11	Video from the 13th Kids Film Workshop
2023-04-06	Video from the Kids Film Workshop 2023-03-26
2023-02-24	Yamagata Documentary DOJO 5 End-of-residency Presentations
2023-02-24	Yamagata Bunka no Kairo Festival 2023 / Yamagin Kenmin Hall Open House 2023: Kids Film Workshop
2023-02-24	The 13th “Kids Film Workshop” at the Yamagata Documentary Film Library: “Let’s try making your film and showing it!”
2022-02-05	The 12th “Kids Film Workshop” at the Yamagata Documentary Film Library: “Explore the World of Animation!”
2022-02-05	Yamagata Bunka no Kairo Festival 2022: Kids Film Workshop “Let’s create animations!”
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YIDFF 2021 ON SCREEN!

2022-09-15	YIDFF 2021 ON SCREEN! (YIDFF 2021 ON SCREEN! Information)
2022-07-29	YIDFF 2021 revival screening “YIDFF 2021 ON SCREEN!”

Documentary Dream Show—Yamagata in Tokyo 2024

2024-09-04	Documentary Dream Show—Yamagata in Tokyo 2024

Screenings

2025-10-21 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (November) 2025-07-08 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (August) 2025-05-01 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (June–July) 2025-03-21 Yamagata Bunka no Kairo Festival 2025 / Yamagin Kenmin Hall Open House 2025 Screening of The Twilight Samurai 2025-03-07 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (April–May) 2025-01-28 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (March) 2025-01-10 Friday Theater Special Edition + Yamagata Film School for Citizens: TV Documentaries produced by Local Yamagata TV stations; Featuring TUY 2024-09-27 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (December–January) 2024-09-26 YIDFF 2025 Preliminary Event: “Envisioning a New Public Sphere for the Future” 2024-09-26 Films under the Blessing of the Great Mountains 2024 2024-09-13 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (November) 2024-07-11 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (August–September) 2024-05-01 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (June–July) 2024-03-08 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (April–May) 2024-02-29 Yamagata Bunka no Kairo Festival 2024 / Yamagin Kenmin Hall Open House 2024 “Welcome to the World of Stop-motion Animation!” 2024-02-19 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (March) 2024-01-28 Friday Theater Special Edition + Yamagata Film School for Citizens: TV Documentaries produced by Local Yamagata TV stations; Featuring SAY 2023-12-14 Screenings about the Palestine-Israel conflict 2023-11-21 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (December–January) 2023-10-31 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (November) 2023-07-07 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (August) 2023-04-28 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (June–July) 2023-03-17 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (April–May) 2023-02-24 Yamagata Bunka no Kairo Festival 2023 / Yamagin Kenmin Hall Open House 2023 Book-Paper-Scissors Screening and Kids Film Workshop 2023-01-14 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (February–March) 2022-11-11 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (December–January) 2022-09-22 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (November) 2022-07-22 Yamagin Kenmin Hall Outdoor Cinema 2022-06-30 Zao in Film 2022-06-30 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (August–September) 2022-05-06 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (June–July) 2022-03-13 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (April–May) 2022-02-05 Yamagata Bunka no Kairo Festival 2022 2022-01-13 Made in Japan YAMAGATA 1989–2021 2022-01-13 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (February–March) << more articles

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Other Screenings

2025-04-10	YIDFF Films: Theater Information
2025-01-23	Screening Three Films about Women Living in the U.S. Military Base Town in South Kore
2024-12-14	Special Screening “All about Frederick Wiseman”
2024-03-23	YIDFF Films: Theater Information
2024-01-22	Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege, A World Not Ours Screenings in Shimotakaido Cinema
2023-12-14	Sapporo Documentary Film Screening
2023-11-24	Independent Screenings: Encountering Palestinian Voices
2023-06-21	YAMAGATA in Hiroshima—Special Selection from YIDFF 2021
2023-02-24	Cachada—The Opportunity Free Screening
2023-01-21	The 14th ZA-KOENJI Documentary Festival
2022-11-28	YIDFF 2021 Films: Theater Information
2022-09-15	Tact 1 day cinema
2022-08-19	Aichi International Women’s Film Festival 2022
2022-08-19	26th Art Film Festival
2022-07-22	Film Journeys on Mountains
2022-06-29	Apichatpong in the Woods 2022 (Kobe)
2022-05-25	Sendai Short Film Festival 2022
2022-05-10	Athénée Français Cultural Center: Athenee Francais Cinematheque
2022-05-03	Apichatpong in the Woods 2022 (Osaka) Apichatpong in the Woods 2022 (Yokohama)
2022-04-23	Sapporo Cultural Arts Community Center: Documentary Film Screening
2022-04-21	Apichatpong in the Woods 2022 (Nagano)
2022-03-22	Peru Film Festival (Nagoya)
2022-03-18	Apichatpong in the Woods 2022
2022-02-15	Athénée Français Cultural Center: Ogawa Shinsuke Retrospective
2022-02-04	The 13th ZA-KOENJI Documentary Festival
2022-01-18	Screening of Standing Men
2022-01-18	Peru Film Festival (Kyoto, Yokohama, Osaka)
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Other Information

2022-03-21	Virtual Bodies: Absence/Presence in Media

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