YIDFF 2019 Screening List
| International Competition | Jurors’ Films | Special Invitation Films |
| New Asian Currents | New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films | Perspectives Japan |
| Yamagata Rough Cut! | AM/NESIA: Forgotten “Archipelagos” of Ocean |
| Double Shadows 2 | Reality and Realism: Iran 60s–80s |
| The Creative Treatment of Grierson in Wartime Japan | Yamagata and Film |
| Rustle of Spring, Whiff of Gunpowder: Documentaries from Northeast India |
| Cinema with Us 2019 | YIDFF Network Special Screenings | Finnish Sauna and Film |
| New Asian Currents | New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films | Perspectives Japan |
| Yamagata Rough Cut! | AM/NESIA: Forgotten “Archipelagos” of Ocean |
| Double Shadows 2 | Reality and Realism: Iran 60s–80s |
| The Creative Treatment of Grierson in Wartime Japan | Yamagata and Film |
| Rustle of Spring, Whiff of Gunpowder: Documentaries from Northeast India |
| Cinema with Us 2019 | YIDFF Network Special Screenings | Finnish Sauna and Film |
International Competition
- Absence [Ekta Mittal / INDIA / 2018]
- Cachada—The Opportunity [Marlén Viñayo / EL SALVADOR / 2019]
- The Crosses [Teresa Arredondo, Carlos Vásquez Méndez / CHILE / 2018]
- Dead Souls [Wang Bing / FRANCE, SWITZERLAND / 2018]
- Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? [Travis Wilkerson / USA / 2017]
- In Our Paradise [Claudia Marschal / FRANCE / 2019]
- Living the Light—Robby Müller [Claire Pijman / THE NETHERLANDS / 2018]
- Memento Stella [Makino Takashi / JAPAN, HONG KONG / 2018]
- Midnight Traveler [Hassan Fazili / USA, QATAR, CANADA, UK / 2019]
- Monrovia, Indiana [Frederick Wiseman / USA / 2018]
- Reason [Anand Patwardhan / INDIA / 2018]
- Self-Portrait: Window in 47 KM [Zhang Mengqi / CHINA / 2019]
- Transnistra [Anna Eborn / SWEDEN, DENMARK, BELGIUM / 2019]
- Your Turn [Eliza Capai / BRAZIL / 2019]
- Yukiko [Noh Young-Sun / FRANCE / 2018]
Jurors’ Films
- Junha’s Planet
- Our Madness
- Step by Step
- Sacrifices
- Vever (for Barbara)
- O’er the Land
- a letter from hiroshima
- Old Men
Special Invitation Films
- The Light of Tom
- A Japanese Village: Furuyashikimura
- Sanctus
- Nitrate Kisses
- Manzan Benigaki
- Angela’s Diaries: Two Filmmakers
New Asian Currents
- Beyond the Salween River [Gigi Berardi / BURMA, VIETNAM, THAILAND / 2019]
- Xalko [Sami Mermer, Hind Benchekroun / CANADA / 2018]
- The Wandering Rock [Cui Zhaosong / CHINA / 2019]
- And What Is the Summer Saying [Payal Kapadia / INDIA / 2018]
- At Home Walking [Rajula Shah / INDIA / 2019]
- That Cloud Never Left [Yashaswini Raghunandan / INDIA / 2019]
- This Is My Home, Come the Sleeping [Halaman Papua / INDONESIA / 2019]
- Exodus [Bahman Kiarostami / IRAN / 2019]
- Gracefully [Arash Eshaghi / IRAN / 2019]
- Cenote [Oda Kaori / JAPAN, MEXICO / 2019]
- Invisible Actors [Chae Hyeong-sik / KOREA / 2018]
- Winter in Seoul [Sohn Koo-yong / KOREA / 2018]
- Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible [Ghassan Halwani / LEBANON / 2018]
- A Feeling Greater Than Love [Mary Jirmanus Saba / LEBANON / 2017]
- The Ashes and Ghosts of Tayug 1931 [Christopher Gozum / THE PHILIPPINES / 2017]
- No Data Plan [Miko Revereza / THE PHILIPPINES, USA / 2018]
- In Thy Kingdom by the Sea [Keino Yutaro / POLAND, JAPAN / 2018]
- Through the Border [Teo Qi Yu / SINGAPORE / 2018]
- Hut [So Yo Hen / TAIWAN / 2018]
- Temporary [Hsu Hui-ju / TAIWAN / 2017]
- Anatolian Trip [Deniz Tortum, Can Eskinazi / TURKEY / 2018]
New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films
- Self-Portrait: Sphinx in 47 KM [Zhang Mengqi / CHINA / 2017]
- Boys for Beauty [Mickey Chen / TAIWAN / 1998]
Perspectives Japan
- Domains
- Listening to the Air
- An Ant Strikes Back
- Tokyo High Tide
- Boy Soldiers: The Secret War in Okinawa
Yamagata Rough Cut!
- Indelible (tentative)
- Never Been Kissed (tentative)
- Ambiguous Loss (tentative)
- Planet of Love (tentative)
AM/NESIA: Forgotten “Archipelagos” of Oceania
- Lifeline of the Sea
- Between Tides
- Tokyo Hula
- Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secret Project 4.1
- Dear Matafele Peinam
- Islands Dropped from a Basket
- Anointed
- Rise: From One Island to Another
- Anote’s Ark
- Senso Daughters (International Version)
- Island Soldier
- Out of State
- Kumu Hina
- Praise Song for Oceania
- Magellan Doesn’t Live Here
- Pow! Wow! Guam: Naturel
- I Matai “The Dead”
- Nana’s Words
- Zori
- Lady Eva
- Tamatoa
- Apparatus
- Fāgogo
Double Shadows 2: Where Cinema and Life Converge
- On My Way to Fujiyama, I Saw . . . .
- I Had Nowhere to Go
- Two, Three Times Branco: A Legend’s Producer
- Goodbye My Love, North Korea
- Mute Fire
- Isadora’s Children
- Chronicle of a Summer
- Remake of a Summer
- Talking About Trees
- The Master
- Chuck Norris vs Communism
- People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose
- Showman
- Meet Marlon Brando
- Angela’s Diaries: Two Filmmakers
Reality and Realism: Iran 60s–80s
- The House Is Black
- The Uncle with a Moustache
- Deliverance/Release
- Women’s Prison
- Women’s Quarter
- Tehran Is the Capital of Iran
- The Night It Rained
- Black and White
- A Simple Event
- Still Life
- Hossein Yavari
- Tenancy
- First Case . . . Second Case
- Bashu, the Little Stranger
- Water, Wind, Dust
The Creative Treatment of Grierson in Wartime Japan
- Drifters
- People Burning Coal (People Making Charcoal)
- The Ama Divers of Wagu
- Turksib
- Hakumo-sen
- Shipyard
- Train C57
- Unknown People
- Coal Face
- Night Mail
- Kobayashi Issa
- Village of Stone
- Living by the Earth
- Housing Problems
- Village Without a Doctor
- Renovating Farm Houses
- Record of a Nursery
Yamagata and Film
- Portrait of Mr. O
- Mandala of Mr. O
- Mr. O’s Book of the Dead
- A Movie Capital
- A Movie Capital Again
- Snow Country
- Mogamigawa no uta: Mokichi
- Wakai chikara
- Yamagata: Mizu to kurashi
- The World’s “Top” Theater
- Yamagata Maiko—Traditional Performing Arts in the Modern Day
Rustle of Spring, Whiff of Gunpowder:
Documentaries from Northeast India
- An Autumn Fable
- Tales from Our Childhood
- Old Man River
- What the Fields Remember
- Orchids of Manipur
- Yelhou Jagoi: The Dances of Lai Haraoba
- The Monpas of Arunachal
- The Broken Song
- Songs of Mashangva
- In the Forest Hangs a Bridge
- Floating Life
- New Rhythms in Nagaland
- MNF: The Mizo Uprising
- Prayers for New Gods
- When the Hens Crow
- Not Allowed
Cinema with Us 2019
- HIRONO
- Over The Sky
- Fight for the Future
- Return to Iitate Village
- Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions
- Somewhere over the Namasia
- Kanakanavu Await
- Twelve Stories About the Flood
- Out of Place
- Formosa Dream, Disrupted
- A Letter to Future Children
- Coming Home