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YIDFF 2021 Information

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YIDFF 2021 Schedule

The seventeenth Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival will be held on:

October 7 (Thu) –14 (Thu), 2021

Online

• YIDFF 2021 Goes Online
• Online Screenings | Tickets | How to Watch Films

Programs

• International Competition
  15 outstanding films selected from entries from around the world.
• New Asian Currents
  Introducing up-and-coming Asian documentary filmmakers.
• Perspectives Japan
  A selection of new Japanese documentaries.
• Film Letter to the Future
• Cinema with Us 2021
• Yamagata and Film
• Special Invitation Film
• Sharing Air, Living Time (Collaboration project with TFAI Taiwan)
  
  • Documentaries from Taiwan and Japan + Filmmakers’ talk
    
    • November event
    • December event
    • January event
• Agency for Cultural Affairs Documentary Film Awards
  
  • Booking starts October 22 19:00– for online screenings for documentaries awarded by the Agency for Cultural Affairs [Closed]
• Yamagata Rough Cut!
• Yamagata Film Criticism Workshop
• and more

Films

• International Competition Films
• New Asian Currents Films

Jurors

• International Competition Jurors
• New Asian Currents Jurors

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YIDFF 2021 Award Recipients

Prizes for the International Competition

Jurors: Higashi Takuma (Chair), Asato Mari, Saito Ayako, Mark Schilling, Shiga Lieko

The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize (The Grand Prize):
Inside the Red Brick Wall  Dir: Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers

The Mayor’s Prize:
Camagroga  Dir: Alfonso Amador

Awards of Excellence:
City Hall  Dir: Frederick Wiseman
Night Shot  Dir: Carolina Moscoso Briceño

Special Jury Prize:
The First 54 Years—An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation  Dir: Avi Mograbi

New Asian Currents Awards

Jurors: Hirose Nanako, Lee-Kil Bora

Ogawa Shinsuke Prize:
Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege  Dir: Abdallah Al-Khatib

Awards of Excellence:
Three Songs for Benazir  Dir: Gulistan Mirzaei, Elizabeth Mirzaei
Makeup Artist  Dir: Jafar Najafi

Special Mention:
Broken  Dir: Nan Khin San Win

Citizens’ Prizes

Writing With Fire  Dir: Rintu Thomas, Sushmit Ghosh

Screening Schedule | Jury Comments | About Prizes

YIDFF 2021 Facts and Figures

Total Films Shown: 54

Total Entries: 1,972 Films out of 124 Countries and Areas

• Internatinal Competition
  1,155 Films out of 114 Countries and Areas
• New Asian Currents
  817 Films out of 70 Countries and Areas

Attendance: 21,790

Guest: 90

Press: 241

Volunteers: 27