YIDFF 2013 Screening List
| International Competition | Jurors Films | Special Invitation Films |
| New Asian Currents | New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films | Perspectives Japan |
| Yamagata Rough Cut! | Memories of the Future: Chris Marker’s Travels and Trials |
| The Ethics Machine: Six Gazes of the Camera | Another Side of the “Arab Spring” |
| Yamagata and Film | Cinema with Us 2013 | Visual Anthropology Today |
| Yamagata University presents | YIDFF Network Special Screening |
| New Asian Currents | New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films | Perspectives Japan |
| Yamagata Rough Cut! | Memories of the Future: Chris Marker’s Travels and Trials |
| The Ethics Machine: Six Gazes of the Camera | Another Side of the “Arab Spring” |
| Yamagata and Film | Cinema with Us 2013 | Visual Anthropology Today |
| Yamagata University presents | YIDFF Network Special Screening |
*=Additional Screenings
International Competition |
- The Act of Killing [Joshua Oppenheimer / DENMARK, INDONESIA, NORWAY, UK / 2012 / The Mayor’s Prize]
- Bajarí: Gypsy Barcelona [Eva Vila / SPAIN / 2012]
- Boundary [Nontawat Numbenchapol / THAILAND, CAMBODIA, FRANCE / 2013]
- Char . . . The No-man’s Island [Sourav Sarangi / JAPAN, INDIA, ITALY, NORWAY, DENMARK / 2012]
- A Gift from the Sky—The Tragedy of Hsiaolin Village, Part 2 [Lo Shin-chieh, Wang Hsiu-ling / TAIWAN / 2013]
- Motherland or Death [Vitaly Mansky / RUSSIA / 2011]
- Once I Entered a Garden [Avi Mograbi / FRANCE, ISRAEL, SWITZERLAND / 2012]
- The Other Day [Ignacio Agüero / CHILE / 2012 / Award of Excellence]
- Parts of a Family [Diego Gutiérrez / THE NETHERLANDS, MEXICO / 2012]
- The Punk Syndrome [Jukka Kärkkäinen, J-P Passi / FINLAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN / 2012 / Citizens’ Prize]
- Revision [Philip Scheffner / GERMANY / 2012 / Award of Excellence]
- Stories We Tell [Sarah Polley / CANADA / 2012]
- Tour of Duty [Kim Dong-ryung, Park Kyoung-tae / KOREA / 2013 / Special Prize]
- Voices from the Waves [Sakai Ko, Hamaguchi Ryusuke / JAPAN / 2013]
- A World Not Ours [Mahdi Fleifel / PALESTINE, UAE, UK / 2012 / The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize]
Jurors Films |
- AKA Serial Killer [Adachi Masao / JAPAN / 1969]
- DramaConsult [Dorothee Wenner / GERMANY / 2012]
- “Gallery Maki: Takashi Screenings 2005–2013 in Yamagata” [Takashi Toshiko / JAPAN / 2005–2013]
- Itami 2009 Early Summer—Late Autumn [Takashi Toshiko / JAPAN / 2009]
- Malaysian Gods [Amir Muhammad / MALAYSIA / 2009]
- Nango jazzzzzzzzz [Takashi Toshiko / JAPAN / 2013]
- Norte, the End of History [Lav Diaz / THE PHILIPPINES / 2013]
- Young Yakuza [Jean-Pierre Limosin / FRANCE / 2007]
Special Invitation Films |
- And Then Akiko Is . . . A Portrait of a Dancer [Haneda Sumiko / JAPAN / 2012]
- A Boatload of Wild Irishmen [Mac Dara Ó’Curraidhín / IRELAND, UK / 2011]
- Far from Afghanistan [John Gianvito, Jon Jost, Soon-Mi Yoo, Minda Martin, Travis Wilkerson / USA, AFGHANISTAN / 2012]
- Nuchigafu—Life Is a Treasure [Park Soo-nam / JAPAN / 2012]
- Report from Haneda [Ogawa Shinsuke / JAPAN / 1967]
New Asian Currents |
- Are You Listening! [Kamar Ahmad Simon / BANGLADESH / 2012]
- Denok & Gareng [Dwi Sujanti Nugraheni / INDONESIA / 2012]
- The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed [Ota Shingo / JAPAN / 2013]
- Ex Press [Jet Leyco / THE PHILIPPINES / 2011]
- Gold Underground [Li Xiaofeng, Jia Kai / CHINA / 2012]
- In-Between Days [Sankhajit Biswas / INDIA / 2012]
- Iron Age [Jung Ji-yoon / KOREA / 2013]
- Jalan Jati—Teak Road [Lucy Davis / SINGAPORE / 2012]
- Mohtarama [Malek Shafi’i, Diana Saqeb / AFGHANISTAN / 2012 / Award of Excellence]
- Mrs. Bua’s Carpet [Duong Mong Thu / VIETNAM / 2011 / Ogawa Shinsuke Prize]
- Raging Land 3: Three Valleys [Chan Yin Kai, Choi Yuen Villagers / HONG KONG / 2011 / Award of Excellence]
- South of the Clouds [Wang Erzhuo / CHINA / 2012]
- Summer Days in Bloom [Roh Eun-ji, Go U-jung / KOREA / 2012]
- The Targeted Village [Mikami Chie / JAPAN / 2012 / Citizens’ Prize, Directors Guild of Japan Award]
- To Sing To Live [Zhao Gang / CHINA / 2013]
- Tondo, Beloved: To What Are the Poor Born? [Jewel Maranan / THE PHILIPPINES / 2012 / Directors Guild of Japan Special Mention]
- Two Meters of This Land [Ahmad Natche / PALESTINE / 2012]
- War Is a Tender Thing [Adjani Arumpac / THE PHILIPPINES / 2013 / Special Mention]
- We Want (U) to Know [Ella Pugliese, Nou Va, The people of Thnol Lok / CAMBODIA / 2011 / Community Cinema Award]
New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films |
- Aoluguya, Aoluguya . . . [Gu Tao / CHINA / 2007]
- The Last Moose of Aoluguya [Gu Tao / CHINA / 2013]
- Yuguo and His Mother [Gu Tao / CHINA / 2011]
Perspectives Japan |
- Love Letter to a Place Called Slaughterhouse [Kubota Chisaki / JAPAN / 2013]
- Sound Hunting [Murakami Kenji / JAPAN / 2013 / Sky Perfect IDEHA Prize]
- Storytellers [Sakai Ko, Hamaguchi Ryusuke / JAPAN / 2013 / Sky Perfect IDEHA Prize]
- Tale of a Butcher Shop [Hanabusa Aya / JAPAN / 2013]
- Theatre 1 [Soda Kazuhiro / JAPAN, USA / 2012]
- Theatre 2 [Soda Kazuhiro / JAPAN, USA, FRANCE / 2012]
Yamagata Rough Cut! |
- Fontanges [Abe Masako]
- Moon in the Evening [Tanaka Kei]
- Survival Confirmation [Takahashi Ryosuke]
- voyage [Ikeda Sho]
- Water and the Island [Matsubayashi Yoju]
Memories of the Future: Chris Marker’s Travels and Trials |
- Statues Also Die [Alain Resnais, Chris Marker / FRANCE / 1953]
- Sunday in Peking [FRANCE / 1956]
- Letter from Siberia [FRANCE / 1958]
- The Astronauts [Walerian Borowczyk / FRANCE / 1959]
- Description of a Struggle [ISRAEL, FRANCE / 1960]
- La jetée [FRANCE / 1962]
- Le joli mai [Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme / FRANCE / 1962]
- The Kumiko Mystery [FRANCE / 1965]
- If I Had Four Camels [FRANCE / 1966]
- Far from Vietnam [Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnès Varda, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard / FRANCE / 1967]
- Be Seeing You [Chris Marker, Mario Marret / FRANCE, BELGIUM / 1967]
- The Sixth Side of the Pentagon [François Reichenbach, Chris Marker / FRANCE / 1968]
- Report on Brazil: Torture [FRANCE / 1969]
- The Battle of Ten Million [Chris Marker, Valérie Mayoux / BELGIUM, FRANCE, CUBA / 1970]
- Report on Paris: Words Have a Meaning [FRANCE / 1970]
- Report on Brazil: Carlos Marighela [FRANCE / 1970]
- Report on Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London [FRANCE / 1971]
- The Train Rolls On [FRANCE / 1971]
- Three Cheers for the Whale [Mario Ruspoli, Chris Marker / FRANCE / 1972]
- The Embassy [FRANCE / 1973]
- Report on Chile: What Allende Said [Miguel Littin / FRANCE / 1973]
- A Grin Without a Cat [FRANCE / 1977]
- Junkopia [FRANCE / 1981]
- Sans soleil [FRANCE / 1982]
- 2084 [Chris Marker, Groupe Confédéral Audiovisuel / FRANCE / 1984]
- A.K. [FRANCE, JAPAN / 1985]
- From Chris to Christo [FRANCE / 1985]
- Matta [FRANCE / 1985]
- Tokyo Days [FRANCE / 1986]
- Berliner Ballad [FRANCE / 1990]
- Ceaușescu Detour [FRANCE / 1990]
- Cat Listening to Music [FRANCE / 1990]
- La théorie des ensembles [FRANCE / 1990]
- Slon Tango [FRANCE / 1990]
- Prime Time in the Camps [FRANCE / 1993]
- The Last Bolshevik [FRANCE / 1993]
- Three Video Haiku (Thaika / Owl Gets in Your Eyes / Petite Ceinture) [FRANCE / 1994]
- Blue Helmet [FRANCE / 1995]
- Level Five [FRANCE / 1996]
- One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich [FRANCE / 1999]
- E-clip-se [FRANCE / 1999]
- A Mayor in Kosovo [Chris Marker, François Crémieux / FRANCE / 2000]
- Remembrance of Things to Come [Yannick Bellon, Chris Marker / FRANCE / 2001]
- The Case of the Grinning Cat [FRANCE / 2004]
- New Regard about Olympia 52 [Julien Faraut / FRANCE / 2012]
The Ethics Machine: Six Gazes of the Camera |
- Catfish [Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost / USA / 2010]
- The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On [Hara Kazuo / JAPAN / 1987]
- Fighting Soldiers [Kamei Fumio / JAPAN / 1939]
- Land Without Bread [Luis Buñuel / SPAIN / 1933]
- The Model [Germán Scelso / SPAIN / 2013]
- Petition (Director’s Cut) [Zhao Liang / CHINA / 2009]
- RAPE [John Lennon, Yoko Ono / USA / 1969]
Another Side of the “Arab Spring” |
- A Common Enemy [Jaime Otero Romani / SPAIN, TUNISIA / 2013]
- Crop [Johanna Domke, Marouan Omara / EGYPT, GERMANY / 2013]
- It Was Better Tomorrow [Hinde Boujemaa / TUNISIA / 2012]
- No Harm Done [Nadia El Fani, Alina Isabel Pérez / FRANCE / 2012]
- The Reluctant Revolutionary [Sean McAllister / UK / 2012]
- SSS—2013 YAMAGATA mix [Oki Hiroyuki / JAPAN / 2013]
- What Is to Be Done? [Emmanuelle Demoris / FRANCE / 2010]
Yamagata and Film |
- A Doodlebug’s Pit [Hiroi Saki / 2013]
- Kids After It [Kato Takuto / 2013]
- share [Nakajima Yu / 2013]
- The Three Girls and Their Three Secrets [Saito Risa, Wada Haruna, Nihei Tomomi / 2013]
- Deidoro [Funayama Hiroko / 2013]
- The Hina Doll’s Head [Funayama Hiroko / 2013]
- Time [Maeda Yuka / 2013]
- Henri [Maeda Yuka / 2013]
- Halcyon days [Kazama Hiroki / 2013]
- Hai Tang [Fu Fan / 2010]
- Illegal Being 2 [Liu Zhihai / 2013]
- I am the Son of a Passing Lark [Xu Xiaodong / 2013]
- Beachcombers [Sun Xiaona / 2013]
- The Bandsman [Wei Xiaofei / 2013]
- Youth [Zhao Hang / 2013]
- Between [Wang Shuai / 2011]
- Funeral Home [Liao Jianfen / 2013]
- Next to Heaven [Chen Yangyang / 2013]
- She Sleeps Next Door [Li Renrui / 2013]
- The Bridge [Huang Honghui / 2013]
- Life on the Stage [Qian Siru, Chen Zhongda / 2013]
- Talking with My Grandmother [Yang Li / 2013]
- Cart Driver No. 652 [Jin Chaofan / 2012]
- Orphans [Chen Junguang / 2013]
- Maybe Things Will Change [Andrea Segre / 2009]
- Good Buy Roma [Gaetano Crivaro, Margherita Pisano / 2011]
- My Marlbolo City [Valentina Pedicini / 2010]
- Doble Forza [Lorenzo Tripodi, Manuela Conti / 2008]
- Summer Flies Away [Andrea Caccia / 2000]
- 42—Stories from a Building-World [Francesca Cogni, Donatello De Mattia / 2009]
- Waltz [Asano Maki, Yoshimura Aya / 2013]
- A Brief Slice of Time [Sakanishi Miiku / 2013]
- mort [Aoyama Risa / 2013]
- The Door [Yoshida Mayu, Nozawa Akane / 2013]
- A Boy and a Girl [Fujii Kyohei / 2013]
- Emi’s Personal God [Nakamura Satoi / 2013]
- Kurokawa Noh [1954]
- Ogisai Festival [1954]
- Ogare-Ogare [Kiyotaki Akira / 1982]
- Onakama [Kiyotaki Akira / 1982]
- Yamagata City Newsreel No. 1 [1959]
- Yamagata City Newsreel No. 2
- Yamagata City Newsreel No. 3 [1960]
- Yamagata City Newsreel No. 4 [1961]
- Yamagata City Newsreel No. 5
- Yamagata City Newsreel No. 6
- Yamagata City Newsreel No. 7 [1962]
- Restoration of the Konpon Chudo Temple [1963]
- Prefectural News: New Cities, New Towns [Circa 1956]
- A Greater Yamagata [Circa 1959]
- Our Institutions and Facilities
- Sasaya Tunnel [Circa 1960]
- A New Mountain Route [1964]
- Images of Autumn [Kiyotaki Akira / 1986]
- Sanzan Line in Winter [Kiyotaki Akira / 1974]
- Bygone Days of the Sanzan Line [Kiyotaki Akira / 1974]
- Battling the Snow [Kiyotaki Akira / 1974]
- Adieu Sanzan Line [Kiyotaki Akira / 1974]
- New Destinations [Kiyotaki Akira / 1975]
- Tora-chan and the Bride
- Painless Childbirth, Part 1: Understanding Painless Labor [Circa 1955]
- Lifestyle Improvements—the Role of the Wife: Life for Women in Farming Families [1954]
- Nikoyon [Circa 1955]
- Daddy Went on a Bicycle [1956]
Cinema with Us 2013 |
- A2-B-C [Ian Thomas Ash / JAPAN / 2013]
- Asahiza [Fujii Hikaru / JAPAN / 2013]
- Chasing Santa Claus [Iwabuchi Hiroki / JAPAN / 2012]
- Dance of Reincarnation; Performed by Kesennuma High School Students [Miyamori Yosuke / JAPAN / 2013]
- Live Your Dream: The Taylor Anderson Story [Regge Life / USA / 2012]
- Living Through March 11, 2011—Words That Remember the Great East Japan Earthquake [Aoike Kenji / JAPAN / 2013]
- A Man Who Returned—The Distance to Happiness, from Tokyo to Fukushima [Takeuchi Masatoshi / JAPAN / 2012]
- The Meaning of Life [Shimamori Chikako / JAPAN / 2012]
- My Neighbors in Haramachi, Minamisoma [Oka Tatsuya / JAPAN / 2013]
- The People Living in Hadenya [Agatsuma Kazuki / JAPAN / 2013]
- Sewers Recovery of Sendai [Takano Hiroyuki / JAPAN / 2013]
- Soma koko kara mirai e [Souma High School broadcasting club / JAPAN / 2013] *
- Tough It Out: One Year After the 2011 Great Sanriku Tsunami [Morioka Norihito / JAPAN / 2012]
- TSUMUGU—Students of Yuriage Junior High School [Ono Daisuke / JAPAN / 2013]
- A View of the Coast [Suzuo Keita / JAPAN / 2013]
- The Will—If Only There Were No Nuclear Plants [Toyoda Naomi, Noda Masaya / JAPAN / 2013]
Visual Anthropology Today |
- Creation and Chanting of Lik Yaat [Ito Satoru / JAPAN / 2011]
- jo joko [Bundo Daisuke / JAPAN / 2012]
- Room 11, Ethiopia Hotel [Kawase Itsushi / JAPAN / 2006]
Yamagata University presents: East and Central European Documentary Films after the End of the Cold War |
- I am Von Höfler (Variation on Werther) [Forgács Péter / HUNGARY / 2008]
- Last Farewell USSR [Alexander Rodnyansky / UKRAINE / 1994]
- Memories and Dreams [Lynn-Maree Milburn / AUSTRALIA / 1993]
- Paper Heads [Dušan Hanák / SLOVAKIA / 1996]
- The Siberian Lesson [Wojciech Staroń / POLAND / 1998]
- Stubborn Dreams [Szobolits Béla / HUNGARY / 1989]
YIDFF Network Special Screenings |
- Challenge to Puccini—Takao Okamura: A Life Dedicated to Opera [Iizuka Toshio / JAPAN / 2012]
- China to Japan—Japanese Woman with Chinese Mother Tongue [Chitose Chihiro / JAPAN / 2013]
Studying Cinema, Making Cinema —Lecture and Film Screening of Ignacio Agüero |
- One Hundred Children Waiting For a Train [Ignacio Agüero / CHILE / 1988]