YIDFF 2023 Screening List
| International Competition | Special Invitation Films | New Asian Currents | Perspectives Japan |
| Yamagata Rough Cut! | Noda Shinkichi Retrospective | Double Shadows 3 |
| Yamagata and Film | Cinema with Us 2023 | Film Letter to the Future | View People View Cities |
| Enchanting Tohoku through Open-air Cinema!! | YIDFF Network Special Screening |
| Yamagata Rough Cut! | Noda Shinkichi Retrospective | Double Shadows 3 |
| Yamagata and Film | Cinema with Us 2023 | Film Letter to the Future | View People View Cities |
| Enchanting Tohoku through Open-air Cinema!! | YIDFF Network Special Screening |
International Competition
- Anhell69 [Theo Montoya / COLOMBIA, ROMANIA, FRANCE, GERMANY / 2022]
- The Bus Station [Gustavo Fontán / ARGENTINA / 2023]
- Crossing Voices [Raphaël Grisey, Bouba Touré / FRANCE, GERMANY, MALI / 2023]
- Eastern Front [Vitaly Mansky, Yevhen Titarenko / LATVIA, UKRAINE, CZECH REPUBLIC, USA / 2023]
- “hibi” AUG [Maeda Shinjiro / JAPAN / 2022]
- The Island [Damien Manivel / FRANCE / 2023]
- Knit’s Island [Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse, Quentin L’helgoualc'h / FRANCE / 2023 / Special Jury Prize]
- A Night of Knowing Nothing [Payal Kapadia / INDIA, FRANCE / 2021 / The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize]
- Notes for a Film [Ignacio Agüero / CHILE, FRANCE / 2022 / Award of Excellence]
- Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020 [Zhang Mengqi / CHINA / 2023 / Award of Excellence]
- Tales of the Purple House [Abbas Fahdel / LEBANON, IRAQ, FRANCE / 2022]
- Three Women [Maksym Melnyk / GERMANY / 2022]
- The Unstable Object II [Daniel Eisenberg / USA / 2022]
- The Visit and a Secret Garden [Irene M. Borrego / SPAIN, PORTUGAL / 2022 / The Mayor’s Prize]
- What About China? [Trinh T. Minh-ha / USA, CHINA / 2022]
Jurors’ Films
- Zinzindurrunkarratz
- Worn Away
- The Swaying Spirit
- Sona, The Other Myself
- The Shadowless Tower
- Your Lovely Smile
- Chlorine Addiction
- How To Thrive In 2050: 8 Tentacular Workouts For A Tantalising Future!
Special Invitation Films
- Crazy [Heddy Honigmann / THE NETHERLANDS / 1999]
- The Daughters of Fire [Pedro Costa / PORTUGAL / 2023]
- The Power of Speech [Jean-Luc Godard / FRANCE / 1988]
- The List [Hana Makhmalbaf / UK / 2023]
- Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus [Sora Neo / JAPAN / 2023]
New Asian Currents
- Luo Luo’s Youth [Luo Luo / CHINA / 2023]
- Trip to Lost Days [Shen Ruilan / CHINA, SINGAPORE / 2022 / Award of Excellence]
- Raise Me a Memory [Varun Trikha / ESTONIA / 2023]
- A Lost Heart and Other Dreams of Beirut [Maya Abdul-Malak / FRANCE / 2023 / Award of Excellence]
- Flickering Lights [Anupama Srinivasan, Anirban Dutta / INDIA / 2023]
- Land of My Dreams [Nausheen Khan / INDIA / 2023 / Citizens’ Prize]
- GAMA [Oda Kaori / JAPAN / 2023]
- Radiance [Hatano Shuhei / JAPAN / 2023]
- Night Walk [Sohn Koo-yong / KOREA / 2023]
- Saving a Dragonfly [Hong Da-ye / KOREA / 2022]
- Until the Stones Speak [Kim Kyung-man / KOREA / 2022]
- Encounters on an Uncertain Spring [Taymour Boulos / LEBANON, PORTUGAL, HUNGARY / 2022]
- Above and Below the Ground [Emily Hong / MYANMAR, USA, THAILAND / 2023]
- Journey of a Bird [anonymous / MYANMAR / 2021]
- Losing Ground [anonymous / MYANMAR / 2023 / Ogawa Shinsuke Prize]
- Nowhere Near [Miko Revereza / THE PHILIPPINES / 2023]
- Broken Whispers [Amir Masoud Soheili, Amir Athar Soheili / SYRIA, IRAN / 2023]
- Homemade Stories [Nidal Al Dibs / SYRIA, EGYPT / 2021]
- Parallel World [Hsiao Mei-ling / TAIWAN / 2022 / Directors Guild of Japan Award]
Perspectives Japan
- Men with Movie Cameras—Shooting the Great Kanto Earthquake [Fujino Tomoaki / JAPAN / 2023]
- What Should We Have Done? [Fujino Tomoaki / JAPAN / 2023]
- Nihonbara Diary [Kurobe Shunsuke / JAPAN / 2022]
- With Each Passing Breath [Kawakami Atiqa / JAPAN / 2023]
- Oasis [Okawa Keiko / JAPAN / 2022]
Yamagata Rough Cut!
Noda Shinkichi Retrospective: A Festival of Things and Life
- Renovating Farm Houses
- Festivals in Tohoku Part 1
- Festivals in Tohoku Part 2
- Festivals in Tohoku Part 3
- Forgotten Land: Record of Life Series II
- The Girl of the Valley
- The Locomotive Kid
- Work in Retail
- The Unforgivable Atom Bomb: The Singing Voice of 1954 Japan
- The Matsukawa Incident: Seeing the Truth Through the Wall
- The Workers of Keihin 1953
- June 1960: Rage Against the Security Treaty
- The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Tone River
- The New Japanese Geography Film Series: The Roofs of Honshu
- The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Tokaido, Yesterday and Today
- The New Japanese Geography Film Series: Villages of the Northeast
- Technique of Foundry: The Cupola Operation
- Marine Snow: The Origin of Oil
- Country Life Under Snow
- Tying Land and Sea
- Carrying the Olympics
- Nitiray A La Carte
- A Town Not Yet Seen
- The Loneliness of Two Long Distance Runners
- Collapsed Swamp, or Painter Yamashita Kikuji
- Mizutani Isao’s Wanderings through Ten Spiritual Worlds
- The Mikagura Festival of Tomiyama Village
- The Procession of Weird and Wonderful Masks
- Sarushima Island with a Fort: Ruins and Graffiti
- The Feast of the Gods on a Winter’s Night: Toyama’s Shimotsuki Festival
- Good Road for the Living and the Dead: Niino Bon Odori, Festival to Send Off the Gods
- Snow as Flowers: Niino’s Snow Festival
- A Million Prayers for Amitabha Buddha and the Lion Dance of Yozuku
- Yoshihama’s Kashima Dance, Ashigara’s Sasara Dance
- The Lion Dance of Toya
- Miura Kikuna’s Ameya Dance
- Sagicho in Oiso
- The Horse-running Ritual of Honmoku Shrine
Double Shadows 3: People Who Transport Films
- Blueprint of a Pleasure Machine
- Silent Witnesses
- Young Cinema
- The Film You are About to See
- Eastwood
- A Bunch of Amateurs
- Kim’s Video
- Zinzindurrunkarratz
Yamagata and Film
- Warabinokou: To the Bracken Fields
- A Voiceless Cry
- Rising Sun, Why So Red—70 Years After the War: A Farmer Poet’s Journey
- Snow Poem
Cinema with Us 2023
- The Sound of Waves
- Tsushima: Fukushima Speaks Part 2
- Radio Shimo-Kajiro: The Songs that Led Us Here Today
Film Letter to the Future
View People View Cities—The World of UNESCO Creative Cities
- Here and Here
- Breathe
- Colaholic
- Fruits and Vegetables
- Boja
- Under One Roof
- Aqueducts
- Late August
- The Power of Film Against the Landscape—From Yamagata to Bradford
- Yamagata × Wagashi—A Future Built on Tradition
- Tan: The Way of the Master Swordsmith Kanbayashi Tsunehira
- The Sake of Yamagata: Mount Zao’s Blessing
- A City with Orchestras
Enchanting Tohoku through Open-air Cinema!!
- Bring Min’yo Back!
- Radio Shimo-Kajiro: The Songs that Led Us Here Today
- A Bunch of Amateurs
- Hijiori Onsen in Snow
- Hijiori Onsen and Prince Nobuhito