YIDFF 2011 Screening List
| International Competition | Jurors Films | Special Invitation Films |
| New Asian Currents | New Docs Japan | Islands / I Lands |
| My Television | A Reunion of Taiwan and Japanese Filmmakers |
| Films about Yamagata | Cinema with Us | Yamagata Manabikan |
| Yamagata University presents | YIDFF Network Special Screening |
| Art Documentary Program | Family Film and Animation Wonderland |
| New Asian Currents | New Docs Japan | Islands / I Lands |
| My Television | A Reunion of Taiwan and Japanese Filmmakers |
| Films about Yamagata | Cinema with Us | Yamagata Manabikan |
| Yamagata University presents | YIDFF Network Special Screening |
| Art Documentary Program | Family Film and Animation Wonderland |
*=Additional Screenings
International Competition |
- Apuda [He Yuan / CHINA / 2010 / Award of Excellence]
- Armadillo [Janus Metz / DENMARK / 2010]
- The Collaborator and His Family [Ruthie Shatz, Adi Barash / USA, ISRAEL, FRANCE / 2011 / The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize]
- Day Is Done [Thomas Imbach / SWITZERLAND / 2011]
- Distinguished Flying Cross [Travis Wilkerson / USA / 2011 / Special Prize]
- The Embrace of the River [Nicolas Rincon Gille / BELGIUM, COLOMBIA / 2010]
- Images of a Lost City [Jon Jost / USA, PORTUGAL / 2011]
- Kantoku Shikkaku [Hirano Katsuyuki / JAPAN / 2011]
- Nénette [Nicolas Philibert / FRANCE / 2010]
- Nomad’s Home [Iman Kamel / EGYPT, GERMANY, UAE, KUWAIT / 2010]
- Nostalgia for the Light [Patricio Guzmán / FRANCE, GERMANY, CHILE / 2010 / The Mayor’s Prize]
- Position among the Stars [Leonard Retel Helmrich / THE NETHERLANDS / 2010]
- Vapor Trail (Clark) [John Gianvito / USA, THE PHILIPPINES / 2010]
- What Is to Be Done? [Emmanuelle Demoris / FRANCE / 2010]
- The Woman with the 5 Elephants [Vadim Jendreyko / SWITZERLAND, GERMANY / 2009 / Award of Excellence, Citizens’ Prize]
Jurors Films |
- Citadel [Atom Egoyan / CANADA / 2004–6]
- Documentary Zuno Keisatsu [Zeze Takahisa / JAPAN / 2009]
- Harvest: 3,000 Years [Haile Gerima / ETHIOPIA / 1976]
- Havana Suite [Fernando Pérez / CUBA, SPAIN / 2003]
- Kula—Argonauts of the Western Pacific [Ichioka Yasuko / JAPAN / 1971]
- The Scene of Crime [Amar Kanwar / INDIA / 2011]
Special Invitation Films |
- Aoluguya, Aoluguya . . . [Gu Tao / CHINA / 2007]
- Far from Afghanistan: The October Edition [John Gianvito, Jon Jost, Minda Martin, Travis Wilkerson, Soon-mi Yoo / USA / 2011]
- Man with No Name [Wang Bing / CHINA, FRANCE / 2009]
- The Oppressed Students [Ogawa Shinsuke / JAPAN / 1967]
- Regarding the Lives of Others [Daishima Haruhiko / JAPAN / 2010]
- Seasonal Work in Tokyo [Endo Muneo / JAPAN / 1965]
New Asian Currents |
- All Restrictions End [Reza Haeri / IRAN / 2009]
- Amin [Shahin Parhami / IRAN, KOREA, CANADA / 2010 / Award of Excellence]
- Bassidji [Mehran Tamadon / FRANCE, IRAN, SWITZERLAND / 2009]
- A Brief History of Memory [Chulayarnnon Siriphol / THAILAND / 2010]
- Children of Soleil [Okutani Yoichiro / JAPAN / 2011 / Special Mention]
- Gift [Okuma Katsuya / JAPAN / 2011]
- Hard Rails across a Gentle River [Tran Thanh Hien, Pham Thu Hang, Do Van Hoang, Tran Thi Anh Phuong / VIETNAM / 2010 / Special Mention]
- Iranian Cookbook [Mohammad Shirvani / IRAN / 2010 / Citizens’ Prize, Community Cinema Award]
- My Own City [Sameera Jain / INDIA / 2011]
- On the Way to the Sea [Gu Tao / CANADA, CHINA / 2010]
- Prison and Paradise [Daniel Rudi Haryanto / INDONESIA / 2010 / Directors Guild of Japan Award]
- The Red Rain on the Equator [Nova Goh / MALAYSIA, TAIWAN / 2010]
- Self-Portrait with Three Women [Zhang Mengqi / CHINA / 2010]
- The Shepherd’s Story / Shinjuku 2009 + Ogaki 2010 [Maeda Shinjiro, Suzuki Hikaru / JAPAN / 2011]
- Thatched Cottages on the Enclave [Meng Xiaowei / CHINA / 2010]
- A Trip to the Barbershop [Selim Mourad / DENMARK, LEBANON / 2010]
- Unreal Forest [Jakrawal Nilthamrong / THAILAND, THE NETHERLANDS / 2010]
- Water Hands [Vladimir Todorovic / SINGAPORE, SERBIA, MONTENEGRO / 2010 / Special Mention]
- we began by measuring distance [Basma Alsharif / PALESTINE, EGYPT / 2009]
- We’ve never seen a night which has finished by reaching a day [Lee Ju-hyoung / FRANCE, KOREA / 2010]
- The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger [Jane Jin Kaisen, Guston Sondin-Kung / KOREA, DENMARK, USA , CHINA / 2010]
- World without Shadow [Khoo Eng Yow / MALAYSIA / 2011]
- Yongsan [Mun Jeong-hyun / KOREA / 2010 / Award of Excellence]
- Yuguo and His Mother [Gu Tao / CHINA / 2011 / Ogawa Shinsuke Prize]
New Docs Japan |
- Chizuru [Akazaki Masakazu / 2011]
- Give Back Kama’s Rights! 2011 [Kim Imman (NDS) / 2011]
- Goodbye UR—Japanese Social Housing Crisis [Hayakawa Yumiko / 2011 / Sky Perfect IDEHA Prize]
- Never Let Me Go [Tachikawa Kazuya / 2010]
- September 11 [Omiya Koichi / 2010]
- Transgender Trouble [Ebata Koki / 2011]
- True to Myself [Doi Toshikuni / 2010]
- Yes, I Am Here [Shimonobo Shuko / 2010]
- Associations of Silverpencils [Mabuchi Toru, Kurihara Mie, Arai Miho, Tachibana Kaoru, Iimura Takahiko, Yamazaki Mikio, Shimada Yukiyasu, Murakami Kenji, Uchimura Shigeta, Otani Takatomi, Nakagawa Kyuya, Fujiwara Sho, Onishi Kenji / 2011]
- BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Omnibus Vol. 1 “APRIL 2011,” Omnibus Vol. 2 “MAY 2011” [Maeda Shinjiro, Suzuki Hikaru, Arikawa Shigeo, Nakazawa Aki, Kimura Noriyuki, Takashi Toshiko, Ishikawa Tamagawa, Matsushima Shunsuke, Umano Noriko, Nishimura Tomomi, Yasuno Taro, Okamoto Akio, Hagihara Kenichi, Wakami Arisa, Ikeda Yasunori, Igarashi Tomoko, tanjc, Hayashi Yuki, Miyamoto Hiroshi, Oki Hiroyuki / 2011]
Islands / I Lands, NOW—Vista de Cuba |
- El Mégano [Julio García Espinosa / 1955]
- For the First Time [Octavio Cortázar / 1967]
- Death to the Invader [Santiago Álvarez, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea / 1961]
- Hurricane [Santiago Álvarez / 1963]
- Now! [Santiago Álvarez / 1965]
- L.B.J. [Santiago Álvarez / 1968]
- Departure at 18:00 [Santiago Álvarez / 1969]
- ICAIC Latin American News [1960–1990]
- Accelerated Development—In the Idiom of Santiago Álvarez [Travis Wilkerson / USA / 1999]
- Chronicle of My Family [Sara Gómez / 1966]
- And . . . We’ve Got Taste [Sara Gómez / 1967]
- An Island for Miguel [Sara Gómez / 1967]
- On the Other Island [Sara Gómez / 1968]
- Treasure Island [Sara Gómez / 1969]
- One Way or Another [Sara Gómez / 1974]
- In an Old Neighborhood [Nicolás Guillén Landrián / 1963]
- Dancers [Nicolás Guillén Landrián / 1965]
- Ociel of the Toa River [Nicolás Guillén Landrián / 1965]
- Return to Baracoa [Nicolás Guillén Landrián / 1966]
- Reportage [Nicolás Guillén Landrián / 1966]
- Coffea Arabica [Nicolás Guillén Landrián / 1968]
- Hi There, Cubans [Agnès Varda / FRANCE, CUBA / 1963]
- Ella [Theodor Christensen / 1964]
- The Battle of Ten Million [Chris Marker, Valérie Mayoux / BELGIUM, FRANCE, CUBA / 1970]
- The Longest Journey [Rigoberto López / 1987]
- The Island of Youth [Ana Laura Calderón / MEXICO / 2007]
- Dance of Time [Song Il-gon / KOREA / 2009]
- 4,000 Children [Fernando Pérez / 1980]
- Camilo [Fernando Pérez / 1982]
- Omara [Fernando Pérez / 1983]
- Sugar Curtain [Camila Guzmán Urzúa / CUBA, SPAIN, FRANCE / 2006]
- Looking for Havana [Alina Rodríguez Abreu / 2006]
- Martí [Alana Simoes / 2007]
- Dual Me [Alana Simoes / CUBA, MEXICO / 2007]
- How to Build a Boat [Susana Barriga / 2007]
- The Illusion [Susana Barriga / 2008]
- The Lonely Beds [Sandra Gómez / 2006]
- Today Is the Future [Sandra Gómez / CUBA, SWITZERLAND / 2009]
- Bohío [Carlos Y. Rodríguez / 2010]
- Cuba Sentimental [Tanuma Sachiko / JAPAN / 2010]
- Where Is Sara Gómez? [Alessandra Müller / SWITZERLAND / 2005] *
- Coffee with Milk [Manuel Zayas / 2003] *
My Television |
- The 19th National Assembly [Ushiyama Junichi / 1954]
- Bear Songs at School [Nishio Zensuke, Goto Hidehiko / 1961]
- Water and Wind [Ushiyama Junichi, Goto Hidehiko / 1963]
- Bearded Doctor in the Highlands [Ikematsu Toshio / 1963]
- A Rebel’s Fortress [Oshima Nagisa, Yoshida Minoru / 1964]
- A National Railway Worker [Oshima Nagisa, Tsuchimoto Noriaki, Hani Susumu, Sekikawa Hideo, Onuma Tetsuro, Tamura Takeshi, Okamoto Yoshihiko, et al. / 1964]
- Civic War [Tsuchimoto Noriaki / 1965]
- War Chronicle of a South Vietnam Marine Battalion [Ushiyama Junichi / 1965]
- Tachi’s Family [Ichioka Yasuko / 1965]
- Ama —Japan’s Women of the Sea— [Ichioka Yasuko / 1968]
- Ushiyama Junichi: Our Wonderful Television [Hatakeyama Yohei / 2011]
- Fly Ogachi [Kimura Hidefumi / 1970]
- Pure Land, Poisoned Sea [Kimura Hidefumi / 1970]
- Darkness [Kimura Hidefumi / 1972]
- Pitch-Black [Kimura Hidefumi / 1973]
- Lead Fog [Kimura Hidefumi / 1974]
- I Can Hear Festival Music [Kimura Hidefumi / 1975]
- I Love Yu-chan [Kimura Hidefumi / 1976]
- The Journalist: Rokko/Kikutake Sunao [Kimura Hidefumi / 1977]
- Bongseonhwa [Kimura Hidefumi / 1980]
- A Portrait of the Author [Kimura Hidefumi / 1984]
- Our Love for Thoroughbreds [Hagimoto Haruhiko / 1964]
- Number 6, Nakanishi Futoshi [Hagimoto Haruhiko / 1964]
- One Life [Hagimoto Haruhiko / 1965]
- Do You . . . ? [Hagimoto Haruhiko, Muraki Yoshihiko / 1966]
- Cool Tokyo: Autumn 1967 [Muraki Yoshihiko / 1967]
- Our Times [Muraki Yoshihiko / 1967]
- Hanoi: Den Hideo’s Testimony [Ota Hiroshi, Hogan Masaaki, Muraki Yoshihiko / 1967]
- My Volcano [Muraki Yoshihiko / 1968]
- The Fish Manager [Kudo Toshiki / 1966]
- A Homecoming [Kudo Toshiki / 1968]
- An Abandoned Ship [Kudo Toshiki / 1969]
- Tomigaya National Elementary School [Kudo Toshiki / 1969]
A Reunion of Taiwan and Japanese Filmmakers: 12 Years Later |
- Boys for Beauty [Mickey Chen / TAIWAN / 1998]
- Scars on Memory [Mickey Chen / TAIWAN / 2005]
- Grandma’s Hairpin [Hsiao Chu-chen / TAIWAN / 2000]
- Funny Competition between Labor and Management: You Have Me in You [Lo Shin-chieh / TAIWAN / 1998]
- A Gift for Father’s Day—The Tragedy of Hsiaolin Village, Part 1 [Lo Shin-chieh, Wang Hsiu-ling / TAIWAN / 2011]
- Swimming on the Highway [Wu Yao-tung / TAIWAN / 1998]
- The Stages [Wu Yao-tung / TAIWAN / 2011]
- I Love (080) [Yang Li-zhou / TAIWAN / 1999]
- Young at Heart: Grandma Cheerleaders [Yang Li-zhou / TAIWAN / 2011]
- After School [Kobayashi Shigeru / JAPAN / 1998]
- Bicycles [Kobayashi Shigeru / JAPAN / 1999]
- Chokora! [Kobayashi Shigeru / JAPAN / 2008]
- Annyong Kimchi [Matsue Tetsuaki / JAPAN / 1999]
- Live Tape [Matsue Tetsuaki / JAPAN / 2009]
- The New God [Tsuchiya Yutaka / JAPAN / 1999]
- Prisoners [Tsuchiya Yutaka / JAPAN / 2007]
- Princess Plum P-udding [Terashima Mari / JAPAN / 1999]
- Dark Märchen Show!! [Terashima Mari / JAPAN / 2009]
Films about Yamagata |
- Rodan [Honda Ishiro / 1956]
- The Skin of the South [Honda Ishiro / 1952]
- My Life in Cinema: Honda Ishiro [1990]
- Men Who Fish [1950]
- Nanook of the North [Robert Flaherty / USA / 1922]
- Can Japan Rise to Its Feet? [Circa 1947]
- Model Health Center [Circa 1949]
- It Happened in Our Town [1950]
- This Land Is Mine [1951]
- Carrying “Democracy”—Interview: The Yamagata Natco Screening Movement [2011]
- The Eye of A Typhoon [Circa 1954]
- Building Massive Ships [Matsuo Ichiro / Circa 1967]
- Discovery of Japan: Yamagata Prefecture [1959]
- Industry and Electricity [Yanagisawa Hisao / 1952]
- Cast Metal Town [Higuchi Genichiro / 1952]
- A Town without Flies [Mura Haruo / 1950]
- A Danish Farm in Japan [Higuchi Genichiro / 1954]
- Dream & Melancholy: Yoshino Keiji and Iwanami Productions [Katsura Shuntaro / 2011]
- Qu Yuan, the Patriotic Poet [1952]
- A Green Peace [1953]
- The Mountains Belong to Us [Circa 1954]
- My Mother [1953]
- How We Fight: The 63-Day Struggle [1953]
- “School of Echoes” Magic-Lantern Screening
- Shinjo and the South Seas [Circa 1937]
- Kaisendo Films [1932–1941]
- Diary of a Shinjuku Thief [Oshima Nagisa / 1969]
- Ecstasy of the Angels [Wakamatsu Koji / 1972]
- Our Future [Iizuka Kasho / 2011]
- Wind [Sono Sion / 1998]
Great East Japan Earthquake Recovery Support Screening Project “Cinema with Us” |
- The Neighborly Tomodachi [Cecilia Ami Kitajima]
- The Great East Japan Earthquake: A Lesson for the Next Generation [Akama Shingi]
- Snow after the Day [Otake Akatsuki]
- Locus —Onahama 0811— [Tomori Eitaro]
- Lives after the Tsunami [Morimoto Shuichi]
- Tsuchioto [Okubo Yui]
- March 18, 2011 [Aeneas Wilder]
- From a Country Struck by Twin Tragedies . . . [Kakegawa Masayuki]
- What We Achieved and What We Didn’t [Okazaki Takashi]
- Great Grandfather’s Drum [Cal Lewin / USA]
- The Sketch of Mujo [Omiya Koichi]
- Gift of Life [Wu Yii-feng / TAIWAN / 2003]
- Hinoemata Kabuki Yarubeya [Abiko Wataru]
- 3.11 A Sense of Home Films
- The Sound of the Waves [Hamaguchi Ryusuke, Sakai Ko]
- Mermaid Legend [Ikeda Toshiharu / 1984]
- 311 [Mori Tatsuya, Watai Takeharu, Matsubayashi Yoju, Yasuoka Takaharu]
- Fukushima: Memories of the Lost Landscape [Matsubayashi Yoju]
- My Camera and Tsunami [R.V. Ramani]
- Kenojiru [Chimura Toshimitsu]
- Hurray! Hurray! Yamada: The Cheerleading Club of the Hosei [Miki Shigenori]
- Tohoku University of Art & Design 3.11 Project
- Never Give Up Concert [Oka Tatsuya]
- Namako Onna [Kato Takuto, Nosaka Nozomi]
- The Future for Children in Fukushima [Hiroki Ryuichi]
- Nanyadoyara —Songs for the Dead and Alive— [Hirata Junko]
- Tomorrow
- Ashes to Honey [Kamanaka Hitomi / 2010]
- Record of the Quake Aftermath: Tohoku Korean School 2011.3.15–3.20 [Komapress (Park Donsa, Park Sayu)]
Yamagata Manabikan |
- Showa Housekeeping [Koizumi Kazuko / JAPAN / 2009]
- Tsuchimoto Noriaki Remembers, July 1996 [Yamagami Tetsujiro / JAPAN / 2011]
- Minamata 1998: What Changed, What Didn’t [Tsuchimoto Noriaki / JAPAN / 2011]
- Save Yamagata Indigenous Crops [Watanabe Satoshi / JAPAN / 2011]
Yamagata University Presents |
- Our School (Uri hakkyo) [Kim Myeong-joon / KOREA / 2006]
YIDFF Network Special Screenings |
- Reviving Recipes [Watanabe Satoshi / JAPAN / 2011]
Art Documentary Program |
- Roundabout, Colors of Soundsteps [Oki Masaharu / JAPAN / 2011]
- Water Children [Aliona van der Horst / THE NETHERLANDS / 2011]
Family Film and Animation Wonderland 2011 |
- Cine-Calligraphy *
- Sanzan [Araya Keishiro]
- fancy works [Kashiwagura Risa]
- little sea parade [Kashiwagura Risa]
- Gattai Eiga *
- Daily Necessaries *
- KokoOto [Norita Tomoko]
- Land of Dinosaur [Shirato Kizuku]
- Coo’s Seashells [Sato Kanako]
- The Yamagata Festival *
- Muchu [Funayama Hiroko]
- The Kiuchi Family *
- Chicken and Egg [Matsumoto Yuri]
- Fantastic Crystal Ball [Shirato Kizuna]
- Ai no Katamari [B ONI]
- Children’s Film Workshop 2010 *
- Children’s Film Workshop “PIKA PIKA” *
- Ishinomaki Animation *
- Bonds
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