International Competition Films
• October 6–10 [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 1,132 entries emerges a stringent selection of 15 cinematic gems, richly varied and representing the vanguard of world filmmaking.
- 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]
- A Night of Knowing Nothing [Payal Kapadia / INDIA, FRANCE / 2021]
- Notes for a Film [Ignacio Agüero / CHILE, FRANCE / 2022 ]
- Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020 [Zhang Mengqi / CHINA / 2023]
- 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]
- What About China? [Trinh T. Minh-ha / USA, CHINA / 2022]
(Alphabetically shown)