International Competition Films
Entries in Total: 1,428 Films out of 123 Countries and Areas
• October 11–15 [Venues] YC Yamagata Central Public Hall 6F, CL Yamagata Citizens’ Hall (Large Hall)
A program that began with the very first YIDFF. Feature-length works were sought from around the world, and from the 1,428 entries emerges a stringent selection of 15 cinematic gems, richly varied and representing the vanguard of world filmmaking.
- 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]
(Alphabetically shown)