YIDFF 2007 Screening List
| International Competition | Jurors’ Films | Special Invitation Films |
| New Asian Currents | Facing the Past | Dramatic Science! |
| Films about Yamagata | The Endurance and Future of 8mm Movies |
| New Docs Japan | YIDFF Network Special Screenings |
| New Asian Currents | Facing the Past | Dramatic Science! |
| Films about Yamagata | The Endurance and Future of 8mm Movies |
| New Docs Japan | YIDFF Network Special Screenings |
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International Competition |  |
- Encounters [Pierre-Marie Goulet / PORTUGAL, FRANCE / 2006 / The Mayor’s Prize]
- FENGMING A Chinese Memoir [Wang Bing / CHINA / 2007 / The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize]
- I Am the One Who Brings Flowers to Her Grave [Hala Alabdalla, Ammar Albeik / SYRIA / 2006]
- Lick Salt—A Grandson’s Tale [Ryan Feldman / CANADA / 2006]
- M [Nicolás Prividera / ARGENTINA / 2007 / Runner-up Prize]
- The Monastery [Pernille Rose Grønkjær / DENMARK / 2006]
- Mr. Pilipenko and His Submarine [Jan Hinrik Drevs, René Harder / GERMANY / 2006 / Citizens’ Prize]
- Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers [Rithy Panh / FRANCE / 2006]
- Potosi, the Journey [Ron Havilio / ISRAEL, FRANCE / 2007 / Runner-up Prize]
- Protagonist [Jessica Yu / USA / 2006]
- Revolution [Jouko Aaltonen / FINLAND / 2006]
- Since You Left [Mohammad Bakri / PALESTINE, ISRAEL / 2006]
- Tarachime birth/mother [Kawase Naomi / JAPAN / 2006 / Special Prize]
- 12 Tangos: Adios Buenos Aires [Arne Birkenstock / GERMANY / 2005]
- Wild, Wild Beach [Alexander Rastorguev, Vitaly Mansky, Susanna Baranzhieva / RUSSIA, GERMANY / 2006]
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Jurors’ Films | |
- Colossal Youth [Pedro Costa / PORTUGAL, FRANCE, SWITZERLAND / 2006]
- My Own Breathing [Byun Young-joo / KOREA / 1999]
- Syndromes and a Century [Apichatpong Weerasethakul / THAILAND, FRANCE, AUSTRIA / 2006]
- Takeshi Kitano, the Unpredictable [Jean-Pierre Limosin / FRANCE / 1999]
- Waban-Aki: People from Where the Sun Rises [Alanis Obomsawin / CANADA / 2006]
- Why Is Yellow Middle of the Rainbow? [Kidlat Tahimik / THE PHILIPPINES / 1994]
| Special Invitation Films |
- Cinema Is about Documenting Lives: The Works and Times of Noriaki Tsuchimoto [Fujiwara Toshi / JAPAN / 2007]
- An Engineer’s Assistant [Tsuchimoto Noriaki / JAPAN / 1963]
- Fishing Moon [Tsuchimoto Noriaki / JAPAN / 1980]
- A History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess [Imamura Shohei / JAPAN / 1970]
- Magino Story—Pass [Ogawa Shinsuke / JAPAN / 1977]
- Nippon Theater—Toward Film Inspired by the Sea [Multi Screen Project / JAPAN / 2007]
- Silence Has No Wings [Kuroki Kazuo / JAPAN / 1966]
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New Asian Currents | |
- Aki Ra’s Boys [Lynn Lee, James Leong / SINGAPORE, CAMBODIA / 2007]
- Back Drop Kurdistan [Nomoto Masaru / JAPAN, TURKEY, NEW ZEALAND / 2007 / Award of Excellence, Citizens’ Prize]
- Bare [Santana Issar / INDIA / 2006]
- Bingai [Feng Yan / CHINA / 2007 / Ogawa Shinsuke Prize, Community Cinema Award]
- Bishar Blues [Amitabh Chakraborty / INDIA / 2006]
- The Description of Bankruptcy [Lee Kang-hyun / KOREA / 2006]
- Dream Walking [Huang Wenhai / CHINA / 2005]
- The Drown Sea [Yuslam Fikri Anshari (Yufik) / INDONESIA / 2006 / Award of Excellence]
- Fragments of depopulation [Kimura Takuro, Miyoshi Hiroaki / JAPAN / 2007]
- Golden Dances [Ali Kalantari / IRAN / 2006]
- Hope Dies Last in War [Supriyo Sen / INDIA / 2007]
- Looking Through [Maani Petgar / IRAN, AUSTRALIA / 2007]
- 192-399: A Story about the House Living Together [Lee Hyun-jung / KOREA / 2006]
- OUT: Smashing Homophobia Project [Feminist Video Activism WOM / KOREA / 2007]
- Playing between Elephants [Aryo Danusiri / INDONESIA / 2007]
- Public Blue [Anke Haarmann [AHA] / JAPAN, GERMANY / 2007]
- Sift [Sally Van Gorder / USA, QUATAR / 2006]
- “Singing Queers” (Talk & Screening)
- Sister [Hu Xinyu / CHINA, USA / 2007]
- Somewhere over the Cloud [Hsiao Mei-ling / TAIWAN / 2007 / Special Mention]
- We Corner People [Kesang Tseten / NEPAL / 2007]
| Facing the Past—German Documentaries |
- Black Box Germany [Andres Veiel / 2001]
- Do Communists Have Better Sex? [André Meier / 2006]
- Eternal Beauty [Marcel Schwierin / 2003]
- The Fairy Tale of the Little Fish [Wolfgang Reinke / 2004]
- I Love You All [Eyal Sivan, Audrey Maurion / 2004]
- The Kick [Andres Veiel / 2005]
- Last to Know [Marc Bauder, Dörte Franke / 2006]
- My Life as a Terrorist: The Story of Hans-Joachim Klein [Alexander Oey / 2005]
- Locked Up Time [Sybille Schönemann / 1990]
- The Rebel: An Untold Story of European Terrorism [Jan Peter / 2005]
- Screenplay: The Times—Three Decades with the Children of Golzow and the DEFA Documentary Film Studio [Barbara & Winfried Junge / 1993]
- Sweep It Up, Swig It Down [Gerd Kroske / 1997]
- The Unknown Soldier [Michael Verhoeven / 2006]
- The Wall [Jürgen Böttcher / 1989-90]
- Winter’s Children [Jens Schanze / 2005]
| Dramatic Science! Yamagata Science Theater |
- Acera, or the Witches’ Dance [Jean Painlevé / FRANCE / 1972]
- The Balance of Nature [Nunomura Tatsuru / JAPAN / 1972]
- The Birth of Frogs [Yoshida Rokuro/ JAPAN / 1955]
- The Black Sun [Miki Shigeru / JAPAN / 1936]
- The Bone II [Kobayashi Yonesaku, Kaneko Fumio / JAPAN / 1986]
- The Cabbage Butterfly [Haneda Sumiko / JAPAN / 1968]
- Cold, Colder, Coldest [Martin Rikli / GERMANY / 1937]
- Destruction [Sadamura Takeshi / JAPAN / 1973]
- The Fourth Dimension [Jean Painlevé / FRANCE /1937]
- A Grain of Barley [Matsukawa Yasuo / JAPAN / 1962]
- Green Drifters [Wolfram Junghans / GERMANY / 1933]
- The Life History of Slime Molds [Higuchi Genichiro / JAPAN / 1997]
- Life of a Cicada [Ota Nikichi / JAPAN / 1936]
- Liquid Crystals [Jean Painlevé / FRANCE / 1978]
- The Love Life of the Octopus [Jean Painlevé / FRANCE / 1965]
- Lubricating Oil [Takeuchi Shinji / JAPAN / 1960]
- Marine Snow: The Origin of Oil [Noda Shinkichi, Onuma Tetsuro / JAPAN / 1960]
- Mysteries of Life [Ulrich K.T. Schultz, Herta Jülich / GERMANY / 1937]
- Nagasaki Children [Higuchi Genichiro / JAPAN / 1949]
- One Day at the Tidelands [Shimomura Kenji / JAPAN / 1940]
- Pencil Rockets and Baby Rockets [Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo (IIS) / JAPAN / 1955]
- Predators of the Night [Ulrich K.T. Schultz, Wolfram Junghans / GERMANY / 1936]
- A Radio Telescope Bigger than the Earth [Makiguchi Mitsuro / JAPAN / 2005]
- The Road to X-Ray Astronomy [Yabe Masao / JAPAN / 1968]
- Roentgen Rays [Martin Rikli / GERMANY / 1937]
- Science Graffiti [Horikoshi Kei / JAPAN / 1984]
- The Sea Horse [Jean Painlevé / FRANCE / 1934]
- Sea Urchins [Jean Painlevé / FRANCE / 1954]
- Secret in the Hive [Higuchi Genichiro / JAPAN / 1962]
- Shrimp Stories [Jean Painlevé / FRANCE / 1964]
- Silent Battle: The Life of the Pine Moth [Higuchi Genichiro / JAPAN / 1955]
- Snow Crystals [Yoshino Keiji / JAPAN / 1939]
- The Stomach: The Elaborate Mechanism of Digestion [Takeda Junichiro, Tamai Jun / JAPAN / 2006]
- Things and Their Weight [Goto Ichiro / JAPAN / 1969]
- The Vampire [Jean Painlevé / FRANCE / 1939-45]
- The Wisdom of the Orangutan [Fujiwara Tomoko, Yamaguchi Junko / JAPAN / 1960]
- The World of Extreme Conditions [Ogawa Hirotaka / JAPAN / 1987]
- The World of the Vacuum [Nakamura Rinko / JAPAN / 1953]
| Films about Yamagata |
- The Battle of Kawanakajima [Kinugasa Teinosuke / 1941]
- Bear Hunting on the Snowy Ridges [Tsukamoto Koji / 1936]
- Global Visual Workshop [YIDFF Organizing Committee / 2007]
- Grandfather’s Morning [Soyama Seiichi / 1940]
- Horse [Yamamoto Kajiro / 1941]
- Hunting Methods on Imperial Household Ministry Preserves: Plover Hunting [Tsukamoto Koji / 1936]
- If You Head West [Oki Yuko / 2007]
- Ishiwara Kanji’s Footage of Manchuria [circa 1930]
- Jamboys [Kagami Keigo / 2006]
- Kaminoyama City before and after the War [Hasegawa Kenzo / No date]
- Kurobe Gorge [Tsukamoto Koji / 1932]
- Mount Zao [Tsukamoto Koji / 1935]
- My Sin: Sakubei’s Story [Sasaki Tsunejiro / 1930]
- “Pathe News” [Tsukamoto Koji / 1927-28]
- The Port of Habu [Nezu Arata / 1929]
- Re: From: [Takahashi Yui / 2007]
- Rural March [Tsukamoto Koji / 1930]
- “Sawa-Talkie ‘Ah, My Hometown’”
- “Securing the Peace of the Land”: An Interview with Ishiwara Kanji [1946]
- Spring in the Imperial Capital [Tsukamoto Koji / 1932]
- Stone Roof: Restoration of Heishindo’s Cedar-Bark Shingle and Stone Roof [Institute for Cultural Property at Tohoku University of Art & Design, Kokunensha Foundation / 2005]
- Tanzawa, Kurokura River [Tsukamoto Koji / 1940]
- Tokyo March [Mizoguchi Kenji / 1929]
- Two people Sitting [Ichikawa Yusuke / 2007]
- Vanity Is Hell [Uchida Tomu / 1925]
- Zaru River: Blue Skies in May [Kobayashi Kaori / 2007]
| The Endurance and Future of 8mm Movies |
- Air [Kawaguchi Hajime / 1992]
- Air Talk [Abe Tohko]
- Along the Southern Coast [Nakajima Takashi / 1971]
- Apr. 21st–22nd, 2007 [Kintaro]
- Berry X 4 [Nao]
- Blushing [Iwasawa Hiroki]
- Boronyago Street [Maeda Toshiyuki]
- Dancers [Shiozawa Teisuke]
- Danki [Fukuma Yoshio / 1983]
- Divine Retribution [Kunimitsu Hiroyuki]
- Dragonfly Glasses [Oki Masaharu / 2003]
- Dreaming of the Nakaya Apartments [Noto Masaru]
- Ecosystem 9 [Koike Teruo / 1993]
- The Editing Room at Night [Yoru no Henshushitsu]
- 8mm Shooter’s Death Sentence [Yamazaki Mikio]
- Fight! Kung Fu Wolf: The Final Chapter [Hotaruika P. D.]
- Filmy Film-010 Galileo Chamber [Miyata Yasuko / 2001]
- First Sight of View [Fukuma Yoshio / 1984]
- Five Knowing Glances [Shintaku Kengo]
- Fragile 42-Year-Old [Fukuma Yoshio / 1996]
- From Here to Where? [Katayama Kaoru]
- From the Ionosphere [Oki Masaharu / 2003]
- Fukuoka Paradise [Fukuma Yoshio / 1991]
- The Garden Just before Dawn [Oki Masaharu / 2003]
- Harappa [Mizuyoshi Yu]
- Haruka/Halka [Takato Akira]
- Hazukishui [Fukuma Yoshio / 1997]
- Hesitation [Ikeda Yasunori]
- High Touch [Abe Tohko / 2006]
- Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo [Yasutake Teruaki]
- H Railway [Masuda Naoyuki]
- Humie-san Film Alive [Manjome Jun]
- Imitating Gozo [Suzuki Shirouyasu / 1982]
- Lair of Light [Oki Masaharu / 2002]
- Living with a Cat by the Tama River [Uchimura Shigeta]
- Memory of Seaside [Yamazaki Mikio / 1982]
- Midnight Dance [Sasaki Ken]
- Mimizu [Fukuma Yoshio / 1986]
- Mizuumi [Abe Tohko / 2005]
- Mr. O’s Dream [Oki Masaharu / 2004]
- My Honeymoon [Uchimura Shigeta / 2002]
- No. [Miyata Yasuko]
- Nuthatch Seeds [Kato Itaru]
- Odessa [Fukuma Yoshio / 1985]
- One Step! [Tsukarin]
- On a Shutter [Fukuma Yoshio / 1982]
- “Personal Focus 2007 Extra” (26 Films)
- Pinholes and Teething Fever [Fukuma Yoshio / 2003]
- Plaza Hotel [Fukuma Yoshio / 2000]
- Predawn Kangaroo [Abe Tohko / 2007]
- Room 415 [Fukuma Yoshio / 2001]
- Run! Akio ’88 [Fukuma Yoshio / 1988]
- Saigon Market ’07 [THE MONDE no suke]
- Sakurai’s Move [Fukuma Yoshio / 1998]
- Scrap and Scrap [Shimizu Hiroyuki]
- September Dust Mites [Fukuma Yoshio / 1987]
- The Shepherd Boy’s Coronation [Oki Masaharu / 2003]
- Shimpu [Fukuma Yoshio / 1979]
- Shimpu—Sequel [Fukuma Yoshio / 1980]
- Sidewalk [Suwa Nozomu]
- The Small Boat [Ishii Hideto / 1992]
- The Stick [Kota Isao / 1974]
- Suginami Green [Kawaguchi Hajime]
- Sunlight Is a Miracle [Mizuyoshi Akira]
- Tin-Alley Daydream [Yamada Isao / 2005]
- To Mr. Fukuma [Sakurai Atsushi / 1993]
- To Sakurai [Fukuma Yoshio / 1994]
- Town Sketch [Kurooka Yoichi]
- 2005, Mars/Paris Kodachrome 40 [Ota Yo]
- Views [Nogami Suwami]
- Wakamizuya [Fukuma Yoshio / 1993]
- Wild Horses [Yajimachi Satoshi / 2004]
- The Woman with a Camera (A Descendant of the Vertov Family) [Sakurai Tomoyuki]
- Yacht Dance [Oki Masaharu / 2002]
- Yume no yukite [Fukuma Yoshio / 1978]
| New Docs Japan |
- The Ants [Ikeya Kaoru / 2005]
- Campaign [Soda Kazuhiro / 2007]
- Ghada: Songs of Palestine [Furui Mizue / JAPAN, PALESTINE / 2005]
- People Crossing the River [Kim Duk-chul / KOREA, JAPAN / 2007]
- A Permanent Part-timer in Distress [Iwabuchi Hiroki / 2007]
- The Women the War Left Behind [Azuma Shizu / 2007]
| YIDFF Network Special Screenings |
- The Cats of Mirikitani [Linda Hattendorf / USA / 2006]
- A Movie Capital Again [Iizuka Toshio / JAPAN / 2007]
- “Pahenlo Project” [Nakazawa Hideki, Sera Kyoko, Nishimura Tomomi, Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Maeda Shinjiro, Inagaki Kanako, Oki Hiroyuki / JAPAN / 2007]
- Pride in Blue [Nakamura Kazuhiko / JAPAN / 2007]