YIDFF: 2023: Events

Events

Opening Ceremony: [Date] October 5 (Thu) 17:00
[Venue] Yamagata Central Public Hall 6F
[Admission] Admission Free
Opening Film: Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus Dir: Sora Neo / JAPAN / 2023 / 103 min
Awards Ceremony: [Date] October 11 (Wed) 17:00
[Venue] Yamagata Central Public Hall 6F
[Admission] Admission Free
Closing Film: The List Dir: Hana Makhmalbaf / UK / 2023 / 65 min
Award Film Screenings: [Date] October 12 (Thu)
The screening program will be announced after the Awards Ceremony. Screening Schedule

Workshop: Film Festival Strategies for Asian Documentaries: [Date] October 6 (Fri) 15:00–17:30
[Venue] Yamagata Creative City Center Q1 (2F) 2-C
[Admission] Admission Free
[Speakers] Abby Sun, Wood Lin
Symposium: Taiwan Docs Inside Out: [Date] October 10 (Tue) 13:20–15:00
[Venue] Forum Yamagata 3
[Admission] Admission Free

Announcing a wide variety of events hosted in official collaboration with other organizations, to liven up the festival nights!

[Date] October 6 (Fri) –10 (Tue)
[Venues] Yamagata Creative City Center Q1, BOTA theater (BOTA coffee 2F)

18:00–20:00: Talking About Films
[Venue] BOTA theater
[Admission] Free
[Hosted by] Docu-Yama Youth
19:00–21:00: Talk with Yasui Yoshio
[Venue] Q1 2-B
[Admission] Donation System
[Hosted by] Preparatory Meeting towards a Japan-Korea Projectionist Conference in Fukuoka

18:00–20:00: Student Mixer Night! 1
[Venue] Q1 2-C
[Admission] Free
[Hosted by] Kickstarter
[Sponsored by] Tohoku University of Art and Design, Japan Film School Association
18:00–21:00: YIDFF Network Special Screening
Shin Gocha Maze Koze Mada Michi Nakaba Mukan no TO / 2023/ 112 min
[Venue] BOTA theater
[Admission] 1,000 yen
[Hosted by] YIDFF Network
19:00–21:00: Screening MARCH & Discussion
[Venue] Q1 2-B
[Admission] 1,000 yen
[Hosted by] smile for Nippon

18:00–20:00: Student Mixer Night! 2
[Venue] Q1 2-C
[Admission] Free
[Hosted by] Kickstarter
[Sponsored by] Tohoku University of Art and Design, Japan Film School Association
19:00–21:00: Small Gauge Film Archives Night
[Venue] Q1 2-B
[Admission] Free
[Hosted by] Digital Film Archives: What the Future Will Bring
20:00–23:00: DIG! Documentary Records in YIDFF 2023
[Venue] BOTA theater
[Admission] 2,000 yen
[Hosted by] Nondelaico LLC

19:00–21:00 ~~18:00–20:00~~: Screening Our Road to Qatar & Discussion
[Venue] Q1 2-B
[Admission] 1,000 yen
[Hosted by] smile for Nippon
19:00–21:00 ~~18:00–20:00~~: When is ART? Around visual media and “artification”
[Venue] Q1 2-C
[Admission] Free
[Hosted by] Research Group on Artification

19:00–21:00: A Night for Aspiring Visual Media Creators
[Venue] Q1 2-C
[Admission] Free
[Hosted by] Creek and River Co., Ltd.