YIDFF 2021 Screening List
| International Competition | Special Invitation Film | New Asian Currents |
| Perspectives Japan | Yamagata Rough Cut! | Film Letter to the Future |
| Yamagata and Film | Cinema with Us 2021 |
| Agency for Cultural Affairs Documentary Film Awards |
| Perspectives Japan | Yamagata Rough Cut! | Film Letter to the Future |
| Yamagata and Film | Cinema with Us 2021 |
| Agency for Cultural Affairs Documentary Film Awards |
International Competition
- Before the Dying of the Light [Ali Essafi / MOROCCO, FRANCE / 2020]
- Camagroga [Alfonso Amador / SPAIN / 2020]
- City Hall [Frederick Wiseman / USA / 2020]
- The First 54 Years—An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation [Avi Mograbi / FRANCE, FINLAND, ISRAEL, GERMANY / 2021]
- Her Name Was Europa [Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy / GERMANY / 2020]
- Inside the Red Brick Wall [Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers / HONG KONG / 2020]
- Miguel’s War [Eliane Raheb / LEBANON, SPAIN, GERMANY / 2021]
- Night Shot [Carolina Moscoso Briceño / CHILE / 2019]
- Notturno [Gianfranco Rosi / ITALY, GERMANY, FRANCE / 2020]
- Nuclear Family [Erin Wilkerson, Travis Wilkerson / USA, SINGAPORE / 2021]
- Nude at Heart [Okutani Yoichiro / JAPAN, FRANCE, USA / 2021]
- Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM [Zhang Mengqi / CHINA / 2021]
- Soup and Ideology [Yang Yonghi / KOREA, JAPAN / 2021]
- Watch Over Me [Farida Pacha / SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, INDIA / 2021]
- The Year of the Discovery [Luis López Carrasco / SPAIN / 2020]
Special Invitation Film
- Wuhan, I Am Here [Lan Bo / CHINA / 2021]
New Asian Currents
- Three Songs for Benazir [Gulistan Mirzaei, Elizabeth Mirzaei / AFGHANISTAN / 2021]
- Ants Dynamics [Xu Ruotao, Wang Chuyu / CHINA / 2019]
- Home in the Mine [Chen Junhua / CHINA / 2021]
- Luo Luo’s Fear [Luo Luo / CHINA / 2020]
- Beyond the Language [Nishino Madoka / FRANCE, JAPAN / 2019]
- Fear(less) and Dear [Anson Mak / HONG KONG / 2020]
- Writing With Fire [Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas / INDIA / 2021]
- Makeup Artist [Jafar Najafi / IRAN / 2021]
- Songs Still Sung: Voices from the Tsunami Shores [Suzuki Yoi / JAPAN / 2020]
- Afternoon Landscape [Sohn Koo-yong / KOREA / 2020]
- Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege [Abdallah Al-Khatib / LEBANON, FRANCE, QATAR / 2021]
- It’s Just Another Dragon [Taymour Boulos / LEBANON, HUNGARY, BELGIUM, PORTUGAL / 2020]
- The Still Side [Miko Revereza, Carolina Fusilier / MEXICO, THE PHILIPPINES, ARGENTINA / 2021]
- Broken [Nan Khin San Win / MYANMAR / 2021]
- This Stained Dawn [Anam Abbas / PAKISTAN, CANADA / 2021]
- Entropy [Chang Yu-sung / POLAND / 2021]
- Dorm [So Yo-hen / TAIWAN / 2021]
- The Lucky Woman [Tseng Wen-chen / TAIWAN / 2020]
Perspectives Japan
- Ushiku
- Whiplash of the Dead
- BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Omnibus 2011/2016/2021
- Transform!
- I Remember
Yamagata Rough Cut!
- Fukushima Keisou Nikki
- Love Letter to “Mamie”
- Tegrol: Tracing a Song to its Keepers in a Sacred Mountain
- To Die A Frenchman