YIDFF 2017 Screening List
| International Competition | Jurors’ Films | Special Invitation Films |
| New Asian Currents | New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films |
| Roxlee’s Yakata | Perspectives Japan | Yamagata Rough Cut! |
| Africa Views | Resonant Bodies—Fredi M. Murer Retrospective |
| Politics and Film: Palestine and Lebanon 70s–80s | Yamagata and Film |
| Cinema with Us 2017 | YIDFF Network Special Screening |
| New Asian Currents | New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films |
| Roxlee’s Yakata | Perspectives Japan | Yamagata Rough Cut! |
| Africa Views | Resonant Bodies—Fredi M. Murer Retrospective |
| Politics and Film: Palestine and Lebanon 70s–80s | Yamagata and Film |
| Cinema with Us 2017 | YIDFF Network Special Screening |
International Competition
- Another Year [Zhu Shengze / CHINA / 2016]
- Calabria [Pierre-François Sauter / SWITZERLAND / 2016]
- Communion [Anna Zamecka / POLAND / 2016 / The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize]
- Donkeyote [Chico Pereira / SPAIN, GERMANY, UK / 2017]
- Ex Libris—The New York Public Library [Frederick Wiseman / USA / 2016]
- A House in Ninh Hoa [Philip Widmann / GERMANY / 2016]
- I Am Not Your Negro [Raoul Peck / USA, FRANCE, BELGIUM, SWITZERLAND / 2016 / Award of Excellence]
- In the Intense Now [João Moreira Salles / BRAZIL / 2017 / Special Prize]
- Lone Existence [Sha Qing / CHINA / 2016 / Award of Excellence]
- Machines [Rahul Jain / INDIA, GERMANY, FINLAND / 2016]
- A Memory in Khaki [Alfoz Tanjour / QATAR / 2016 / The Mayor’s Prize]
- Sennan Asbestos Disaster [Hara Kazuo / JAPAN / 2017 / Citizens’ Prize]
- A Strange Love Affair with Ego [Ester Gould / THE NETHERLANDS / 2015]
- Tremorings of Hope [Agatsuma Kazuki / JAPAN / 2017]
- Wake (Subic) [John Gianvito / USA, THE PHILIPPINES / 2015]
Jurors’ Films
- This Is the Way I Like It II [Ignacio Agüero / CHILE / 2016]
- In Camera [Ranjan Palit / INDIA / 2010]
- Once Upon a Time in Beirut: The Story of a Star [Jocelyne Saab / LEBANON, FRANCE, GERMANY / 1994] (Palestine and Lebanon 70s–80s)
- DUBHOUSE: Experience in Material No. 52 [Shichiri Kei, Suzuki Ryoji / JAPAN / 2012]
- Another Side / Salome’s Daughter—Remix [Shichiri Kei / JAPAN / 2017]
- Memory of the Soil [Shiozaki Toshiko / UK / 1996]
- Children of the Hakkyo School Project [Shiozaki Toshiko / JAPAN / 2017]
Special Invitation Films
- Ginrin / Bicycle in Dreams [Matsumoto Toshio / JAPAN / 1955]
- Nishijin [Matsumoto Toshio / JAPAN / 1961]
- For My Crushed Right Eye [Matsumoto Toshio / JAPAN / 1968]
- Mona Lisa [Matsumoto Toshio / JAPAN / 1973]
- Atman [Matsumoto Toshio / JAPAN / 1975]
- Everything Visible Is Empty / Shiki soku ze ku [Matsumoto Toshio / JAPAN / 1975]
- White Hole [Matsumoto Toshio / JAPAN / 1979]
- Relation [Matsumoto Toshio / JAPAN / 1982]
- Sway [Matsumoto Toshio / JAPAN / 1985]
- Funeral Parade of Roses [Matsumoto Toshio / JAPAN / 1969]
- The Power of Expression: The Minamata Producer Speaks [Inoue Minoru, Kataoka Nozomi / JAPAN / 2016]
- The Targeted Island: A Shield Against Storms [Mikami Chie / JAPAN / 2017]
- Alpine Fire [Fredi M. Murer / SWITZERLAND / 1985] (Fredi M. Murer Retrospective)
- Stealing Rodin [Cristóbal Valenzuela / CHILE / 2017]
New Asian Currents
- Self Portrait: Birth in 47 KM [Zhang Mengqi / CHINA / 2016]
- A Yangtze Landscape [Xu Xin / CHINA / 2017]
- Caro Mio Ben (My Dear Beloved) [Su Qing, Mina / CHINA, SINGAPORE / 2017]
- Yellowing [Chan Tze-Woon / HONG KONG / 2016 / Ogawa Shinsuke Prize]
- Up Down & Sideways [Anushka Meenakshi, Iswar Srikumar / INDIA / 2017 / Award of Excellence, Directors Guild of Japan Award]
- Nokas [Manuel Alberto Maia / INDONESIA / 2016]
- Starless Dreams [Mehrdad Oskouei / IRAN / 2016]
- The Beginning of Creation: Abduction / A Child [Yamashiro Chikako / JAPAN / 2015]
- A Woman of the Butcher Shop [Yamashiro Chikako / JAPAN / 2016]
- On to the Next Step: Lives After 3.11 [Tashiro Yoko / JAPAN / 2015]
- Bamseom Pirates, Seoul Inferno [Jung Yoon-suk / KOREA / 2017 / Special Mention]
- Hurrahh! [Jung Jae-hoon / KOREA / 2011]
- The Slice Room [Song Yun-hyeok / KOREA / 2016 / Award of Excellence]
- This Little Father Obsession [Selim Mourad / LEBANON / 2016]
- Rubber Coated Steel [Lawrence Abu Hamdan / LEBANON, GERMANY / 2017]
- Those Who Remain [Eliane Raheb / LEBANON, UAE / 2016]
- Of Cats, Dogs, Farm Animals and Sashimi [Perry Dizon / THE PHILIPPINES / 2015]
- In Memory of the Chinatown [Chen Chun-Tien / TAIWAN / 2016]
- City of Jade [Midi Z / TAIWAN, MYANMAR / 2016 / Special Mention]
- Droga! [Miko Revereza / USA, THE PHILIPPINES / 2014]
- Disintegration 93–96 [Miko Revereza / USA, THE PHILIPPINES / 2017]
New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films
- A Filmless Festival [Wang Wo / CHINA / 2015]
- Cuts [Chairun Nissa / INDONESIA / 2016]
New Asian Currents Special Screening and Exhibition
Roxlee’s Yakata
- Lizard, or How to Perform in Front of a Reptile [Roxlee, Ludwig Ilio / THE PHILIPPINES / 1986]
- Spit+Optik [Roxlee, Benjie Lontoc Jr., Yeye Calderon, At Maculangan / THE PHILIPPINES / 1989]
- The Great Smoke [Roxlee / THE PHILIPPINES / 1984]
- ABCD [Roxlee / THE PHILIPPINES / 1985]
- Juan Gapang (Johnny Crawl) [Roxlee, Yeye Calderon, At Maculangan / THE PHILIPPINES / 1987]
- Cesar Asar’s Box [Roxlee / THE PHILIPPINES / 1989]
- Harajuku [Roxlee / THE PHILIPPINES / 1992]
- Green Rocking Chair [Roxlee / THE PHILIPPINES / 2008]
- Manila Scream [Roxlee, Blair Camilo, Bob Macabenta / THE PHILIPPINES / 2017]
- Yours Trolley [Roxlee, Blair Camilo / THE PHILIPPINES / 2017]
- Slicing Art [Roxlee, Blair Camilo / THE PHILIPPINES / 2017]
Perspectives Japan
- Tenryu-ku Okuryoke Osawa: Bessho Tea Factory [Hori Teiichi / JAPAN / 2014]
- I Want to Run for Office [Xing Fei / CHINA / 2016]
- The Road Home [Oura Miran / JAPAN / 2017]
- BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Omnibus 2011/2016 [Suzuki Hikaru, Oki Hiroyuki, Ikeda Yasunori, Takashi Toshiko / JAPAN / 2017]
- Almost Ghost [Onishi Kenji / JAPAN / 2017]
- Look Behind! [Murakami Kenji / JAPAN / 2017]
Yamagata Rough Cut!
- Buddhism (tentative) [Utagawa Tatsuhito]
- Ona, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea [Dwi Sujanti Nugraheni]
- Odoriko (tentative) [Okutani Yoichiro]
- Estellar (tentative) [Jeffrie Po]
- Youth Rough Cut!
Africa Views
- Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema [Margarida Cardoso / MOZAMBIQUE, PORTUGAL / 2003]
- The Colonial Misunderstanding [Jean-Marie Téno / CAMEROON, FRANCE, GERMANY / 2004]
- Cuba, an African Odyssey [Jihan El-Tahri / FRANCE / 2007]
- Hidden Heart: The Story of Christian Barnard and Hamilton Naki [Cristina Karrer, Werner Schweizer / SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, SOUTH AFRICA / 2008]
- A Pair of Boots and a Bicycle [Vincent Moloi / SOUTH AFRICA / 2007]
- Motherland [Owen ’Alik Shahadah / USA, UK / 2010]
- Independência [Mário Bastos / ANGOLA / 2015]
- Nasser: Egypt’s Modern Pharaohs [Jihan El-Tahri / EGYPT, FRANCE, SOUTH AFRICA / 2015]
- Skulls of My People [Vincent Moloi / SOUTH AFRICA, NAMIBIA / 2016]
- Congo River, Beyond Darkness [Thierry Michel / BELGIUM / 2005]
- An African Election [Jarreth Merz, Kevin Merz / GHANA, USA, SWITZERLAND / 2010]
- Robert Mugabe . . . What Happened? [Simon Bright / UK, FRANCE, SOUTH AFRICA / 2011]
- Beats of the Antonov [Hajooj Kuka / SUDAN, SOUTH AFRICA / 2014]
- The Siren of Faso Fani [Michel K. Zongo / BURKINA FASO, FRANCE, GERMANY, QATAR / 2014]
- Mogadishu Soldier [Torstein Grude / NORWAY, DENMARK, FINLAND / 2016]
- Return of a President: After the Coup in Madagascar [Lotte Mik-Meyer / DENMARK / 2017]
- Cosmic Africa [Craig Foster, Damon Foster / SOUTH AFRICA / 2003]
- Fokofpolisiekar: Forgive Them for They Know Not What They Do [Bryan Little / SOUTH AFRICA / 2009]
- The Manuscripts of Timbuktu [Zola Maseko / SOUTH AFRICA / 2009]
- The African Cypher [Bryan Little / SOUTH AFRICA / 2012]
- Intore [Eric Kabera / RWANDA / 2014]
- I Shot Bi Kidude [Andy Jones / UK, TANZANIA / 2015]
Resonant Bodies—Fredi M. Murer Retrospective
- Marcel [SWITZERLAND / 1962]
- Pacific—or the Contented [SWITZERLAND / 1965]
- Balance [SWITZERLAND / 1965]
- Sylvan [SWITZERLAND / 1965]
- Chicory [SWITZERLAND / 1966]
- Bernhard Luginbühl [SWITZERLAND / 1966]
- Sad-is-Fiction [SWITZERLAND / 1969]
- Vision of a Blind Man [SWITZERLAND / 1969]
- Passages [SWITZERLAND, GERMANY / 1972]
- Christopher & Alexander [SWITZERLAND / 1973]
- We Mountain People in the Mountains [SWITZERLAND / 1974]
- Zones [SWITZERLAND / 1979]
- Alpine Fire [SWITZERLAND / 1985] (Special Invitation Films)
- The Green Mountain [SWITZERLAND / 1990]
Politics and Film: Palestine and Lebanon 70s–80s
- Fatah: Palestine [Luigi Perelli / ITALY / 1970]
- The Red Army / PFLP: Declaration of World War [Adachi Masao / JAPAN / 1971]
- One Hundred Faces for a Single Day [Christian Ghazi / LEBANON / 1971]
- Revolution until Victory aka We Are the Palestinian People [Pacific Newsreel / USA / 1973]
- Kufur Shuba [Samir Nimr / IRAQ, LEBANON / 1975]
- L’Olivier [Groupe Cinema Vincennes / FRANCE / 1976]
- Here and Elsewhere [Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Gorin / FRANCE / 1976]
- The Fifth War [Monica Maurer, Samir Nimr / GERMANY, IRAQ / 1980]
- Genet in Shatilah [Richard Dindo / SWITZERLAND / 1999]
- Off Frame aka Revolution until Victory [Mohanad Yaqubi / PALESTINE, FRANCE, QATAR, LEBANON / 2016]
- Lebanon in Turmoil [Jocelyne Saab / LEBANON / 1975]
- Beirut, Never More [Jocelyne Saab / LEBANON / 1976]
- Letter from Beirut [Jocelyne Saab / LEBANON / 1978]
- Beirut, My City [Jocelyne Saab / LEBANON / 1982]
- Once Upon a Time in Beirut: The Story of a Star [Jocelyne Saab / LEBANON, FRANCE, GERMANY / 1994] (Jurors’ Films)
Yamagata and Film
- The Red Spectacles [Oshii Mamoru / JAPAN / 1987]
- Talking Head [Oshii Mamoru / JAPAN / 1992]
- The World’s “Top” Theater [Sato Koichi / JAPAN / 2017]
- Living on the River Agano [Sato Makoto / JAPAN / 1992]
- Diary of Our Daughter’s Birth [Sato Makoto / JAPAN / 1994]
- The Brightness of the Day [Narrative Structure, Editing: Sato Makoto / JAPAN / 1994]
- Artists in Wonderland [Sato Makoto / JAPAN / 1998]
- SELF AND OTHERS [Sato Makoto / JAPAN / 2000]
- Hanako [Sato Makoto / JAPAN / 2001]
- Memories of Agano [Sato Makoto / JAPAN / 2004]
- Out of Place: Memories of Edward Said [Sato Makoto / JAPAN / 2005]
- Live Life Love [Prod: Tohoku University of Art and Design / JAPAN / 2017]
- Hard Boiled City Yamagata [Matsumoto Tatsuki and other students / JAPAN / 2016]
- Living with Film [Ito Kengo / JAPAN / 2017]
- Yamagata Iron Castings—Functional Design in Daily Life [Watanabe Satoshi / JAPAN / 2016]
- Yamagata Forged Blades [Sato Koichi / JAPAN / 2016]
Cinema with Us 2017
- FUKUSHIMA: The silent voices [Sato Chiho, Lucas Rue / FRANCE / 2017]
- Life—Another Story of Fukushima [Kasai Chiaki / JAPAN / 2017]
- Nuclear Cattle (International Version) [Matsubara Tamotsu / JAPAN / 2016]
- Oguni Matagi [Hayashi Gohei / JAPAN / 2016]
- Dear Monster—Poet and the Disaster [Ito Ken / JAPAN / 2016]
- The People Living in Hadenya [Agatsuma Kazuki / JAPAN / 2014]
- Red Wedding [Chan Lida, Guillaume Suon / CAMBODIA, FRANCE / 2012]
- Where I Go [Neang Kavich / CAMBODIA, FRANCE / 2012]
YIDFF Network Special Screening
- Start Line [Imamura Ayako / JAPAN / 2016]