YIDFF 2009 Screening List
| International Competition | Jurors’ Films | Special Invitation Films |
| New Asian Currents | New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films | New Docs Japan |
| J-Pitch | Islands / I Lands | Guy Debord Retrospective | Tomorrow’s a Day Away |
| Films about Yamagata | YIDFF Network Special Screenings | Directors Guild of Japan |
| New Asian Currents | New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films | New Docs Japan |
| J-Pitch | Islands / I Lands | Guy Debord Retrospective | Tomorrow’s a Day Away |
| Films about Yamagata | YIDFF Network Special Screenings | Directors Guild of Japan |
*=Additional Screenings
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International Competition |  |
- AUTO*MATE [Martin Mareček / CZECH REPUBLIC / 2009]
- Because We Were Born [Jean-Pierre Duret, Andrea Santana / FRANCE, BRAZIL / 2008]
- Driving Men [Susan Mogul / USA / 2008]
- Encirclement—Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy [Richard Brouillette / CANADA / 2008 / The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize]
- The Fortress [Fernand Melgar / SWITZERLAND / 2008 / Award of Excellence]
- I am Von Höfler (Variation on Werther) [Forgács Péter / HUNGARY / 2008]
- Japan: A Story of Love and Hate [Sean McAllister / UK, JAPAN / 2009 / Special Prize, Citizens’ Prize]
- The Lightning Testimonies [Amar Kanwar / INDIA / 2007]
- The Mother [Antoine Cattin, Pavel Kostomarov / SWITZERLAND, FRANCE, RUSSIA / 2007]
- The New Rijksmuseum [Oeke Hoogendijk / THE NETHERLANDS / 2008]
- Oblivion [Heddy Honigmann / THE NETHERLANDS, GERMANY / 2008 / The Mayor’s Prize]
- The Pier of Apolonovka [Andrei Schwartz / GERMANY / 2008]
- RiP! A Remix Manifesto [Brett Gaylor / CANADA / 2008]
- Staub (Dust) [Hartmut Bitomsky / GERMANY, SWITZERLAND / 2007]
- Z32 [Avi Mograbi / ISRAEL, FRANCE / 2008 / Award of Excellence]
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Jurors’ Films | |
- From Language to Language [Nurith Aviv / FRANCE, GERMANY, ISRAEL / 2004]
- Fuck Cinema [Wu Wenguang / CHINA / 2005]
- Journeys with Kabir [Shabnam Virmani / INDIA / 2008]
- KI-SE-KI—gozoCiné [Yoshimasu Gozo / JAPAN / 2008]
- NA-MU [Oki Hiroyuki / JAPAN / 2004–2009]
- A Poet: Unconcealed Poetry [Garin Nugroho / INDONESIA / 1999]
- Who Will Guard the Guardman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin [Karel Vachek / CZECH REPUBLIC / 2002]
| Special Invitation Films |
- Agrarian Utopia [Uruphong Raksasad / THAILAND / 2009]
- A Japanese Village—Furuyashikimura [Ogawa Shinsuke / JAPAN / 1982]
- Kotsunagi—Iriai, Commons in Japan [Nakamura Kazuo / JAPAN / 2009]
- Material & Memories [Hara Masato / JAPAN / 2009]
- Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls [Tsuchimoto Noriaki / JAPAN / 2004]
- Spring: The Story of Hsu Chin-Yu [Tseng Wen-Chen / TAIWAN / 2002]
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New Asian Currents | |
- American Alley [Kim Dong-ryung / KOREA / 2008 / Ogawa Shinsuke Prize]
- Bilal [Sourav Sarangi / INDIA / 2008 / Award of Excellence, Community Cinema Award]
- Chronicle of an Amnesiac [Anirban Datta / JAPAN / 2007]
- The Convert [Panu Aree, Kong Rithdee, Kaweenipon Ketprasit / THAILAND / 2008]
- Crescent Moon Over the Sea [Yuli Andari / INDONESIA / 2007]
- Death of the Poet [Elif Ergezen / TURKEY / 2009]
- Disorder [Huang Weikai / CHINA / 2009]
- Doctor Ma’s Country Clinic [Cong Feng / CHINA / 2008 / Directors Guild of Japan Award]
- The Fool Doesn’t Catch a Cold [Kim Kyung-man / KOREA / 2008]
- Green Rocking Chair [Roxlee / THE PHILIPPINES / 2008]
- I Wonder . . . [Anupama Srinivasan / INDIA / 2009]
- The Memory of Being Here [Kawabe Ryota / JAPAN / 2007]
- Nagai Park Elegy [Sato Leo, NDS / JAPAN / 2009]
- The Passionate Culture [Chung Kam-tong / HONG KONG / 2009]
- Samia [Ammar Albeik / SYRIA / 2008]
- Spiral Staircase of Harbin [Ji Dan / JAPAN / 2008 / Special Mention]
- This is Lebanon [Eliane Raheb / LEBANON / 2008 / Award of Excellence]
- Ximaojia Universe [Mao Chenyu / CHINA / 2009 / Special Mention]
- Yuri—About Loving [Azuma Mieko / GERMANY / 2008 / Citizens’ Prize]
| New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films |
- Seven Blind Woman Filmmakers [Head Director: Mohammad Shirvani / IRAN / 2008]
- Weabak: Stayed Out All Night [Kim Mi-re / KOREA / 2009]
| New Docs Japan |
- Annyong Yumika [Matsue Tetsuaki / 2009]
- Fat Chance [Sekiguchi Yuka / AUSTRALIA / 2008]
- Fence Part One: Lost Paradise, Part Two: Fragmented Stratum [Fujiwara Toshi / 2008]
- Field Feet [Onishi Kenji / 2008]
- Hongara—Sacred Torch [Nagaoka Noa / 2008]
- Memory of spider and moth [Omori Hiroki / 2008]
- Path of Anna—Yesterday Today Tomorrow 2 [Naoi Riyo / JAPAN, THAILAND / 2009]
- Tanaka-san Will Not Do Calisthenics [Maree Delofski / AUSTRALIA / 2008]
- Ultimate Land—A Year of Iwasaki Onikenbai [Miyake Nagaru / 2008]
- A Whispered Life [Gilles Sionnet, Marie-Francine Le Jalu / FRANCE / 2009]
| J-Pitch Seminars |
- Memories of Agano [Sato Makoto / JAPAN / 2004]
- Yasukuni [Li Ying / JAPAN / 2007]
| Islands / I Lands—Cinemas in Exile |
- Accentuation [Jane Jin Kaisen / DENMARK, KOREA, JAPAN / 2005]
- Amami Film: In Memory of Miho-san [Yoshimasu Gozo / JAPAN / 2008]
- At the End of the Arc: Yaeyama Islands [Toyono Kosuke / JAPAN / 1964]
- dolce . . . [Alexander Sokurov / JAPAN, RUSSIA / 1999]
- each film . . . an island? [Kidlat Tahimik / THE PHILIPPINES / 2009]
- Exilée [Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / USA / 1980]
- Foreign Sky [Kum Soni / KOREA / 2005]
- Life on Distant Islands [Naeda Yasuo / JAPAN / 1961]
- Meta Ekologi [Gotot Prakosa / INDONESIA / 1979]
- Mouth to Mouth [Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / USA / 1975]
- Order [Jean-Daniel Pollet / FRANCE / 1974]
- Ovarian Chants [Maria Rosalie Zerrudo / THE PHILIPPINES / 2007] *
- Passages Paysages [Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / USA / 1978]
- Permutations [Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / USA / 1976]
- The Place Where I Live—and touch me [Higa Chiaki / JAPAN / 2004]
- Promised Paradise [Leonard Retel Helmrich / THE NETHERLANDS, INDONESIA / 2006]
- Puppet Shaman Star [Takamine Go / JAPAN / 2008]
- Re Dis Appearing [Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / USA / 1977]
- Reflection [Marutani Hajime / JAPAN / 2007]
- Secret Spill [Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / USA / 1974]
- The Sorceress of Dirah [Sardono W. Kusumo / INDONESIA / 1992]
- The Struggle Against Endemic Diseases [Kikuchi Shu / JAPAN / 1961]
- Vidéoème [Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / USA / 1976]
- Yellow Bridge [Maria Rosalie Zerrudo / JAPAN / 2009]
| Against Cinema—Guy Debord Retrospective |
- Critique of Separation [FRANCE / 1961]
- Howls for Sade [FRANCE / 1952]
- In girum imus nocte et consummur igni (We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire) [FRANCE / 1978]
- On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time [FRANCE / 1959]
- Refutation of All Judgments, Whether in Praise or Hostile, Thus Far Rendered on the Film “The Society of the Spectacle” [FRANCE / 1975]
- The Society of the Spectacle [FRANCE / 1973]
| Tomorrow’s a Day Away |
- The Heart of Jenin [Marcus Vetter, Lior Geller / GERMANY / 2008]
- Kites [Beata Dzianowicz / POLAND / 2008]
- Let’s Be Together [Nanna Frank Møller / DENMARK / 2008]
- Megunica [Lorenzo Fonda / ITALY / 2008]
- Rough Aunties [Kim Longinotto / UK / 2008]
| Films about Yamagata |
- Adachi Household Cinema [Circa 1935]
- The Apparition of Adolescence [Kagami Keigo / 2008]
- Bent with the Years [1949]
- Children’s Guardian [1950]
- Citizen’s Public Hall [1950]
- The Cumberland Story [1950]
- Discussion Techniques [1952]
- Facts about 16mm Film [1950]
- Introduction to America [1952]
- Ise Shima National Park [Honda Ishiro / 1949]
- Japanese Bride in America [1952]
- Let’s Square Dance [1950]
- Libraries without Bars [1950]
- Man of Aran [Robert J. Flaherty / USA / 1934]
- Night School [Honda Ishiro / 1956]
- Public Health Nurse [1951]
- Sato Kyukichi’s Home Movies [1931–1953]
- Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers [Honda Ishiro / 1959]
- Shinjuku Legend—Nagisa Yoko Shinjuku Koma Gewa-gewa Recital [Kawanaka Nobuhiro / 2009]
- Son of the Earth [1958]
- Song for a Bride [Honda Ishiro / 1958]
- The War of the Gargantuas [Honda Ishiro / 1966]
- We Are All Singing Together [Kobayashi Kaori / 2009]
- Where Are the Germs? [1952]
| YIDFF Network Special Screenings |
- Hijiori, Cure Resort [Watanabe Satoshi / JAPAN / 2009]
- Seeing [Kato Itaru, Kano Shiho, Maeda Shinjiro, Inagaki Kanako, Okuno Kunitoshi, Oki Hiroyuki / JAPAN / 2009]
| Special Screening to Commemorate the Inauguration of the Directors Guild of Japan Award (Presented by Directors Guild of Japan) |
- Cut! The Rights of Japanese Film Directors [Ito Shunya / JAPAN / 2006]