International Competition Films
Entries in Total: 1,155 Films out of 114 Countries and Areas
• October 8–12
A program that began with the very first YIDFF. Feature-length works were sought from around the world, and from the 1,155 entries emerges a stringent selection of 15 cinematic gems, richly varied and representing the vanguard of world filmmaking.
- 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]
(Alphabetically shown)