View People View Cities Films
Co-organized by Yamagata City and
Yamagata Creative City Promotion Council
Yamagata Creative City Promotion Council
• October 6–9 [Venue] F2 Forum 2, Q1 Yamagata Creative City Center Q1 (2F) 2-B
Featuring the theme of “View People View Cities,” this special program at YIDFF 2023 presents eight titles selected from an open call for films made in or by filmmakers from the twenty member cities (excluding Yamagata) of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the field of Film. A collaborative project between Yamagata City and Bradford, England, the short film The Power of Film Against the Landscape—From Yamagata to Bradford (directed by Louisa Rose Mackleston) will also have its premiere, and be screened alongside four “Yamagata Renaissance” films about Yamagata and its traditional culture.
- Here and Here [Jimbo Yoshimasa / KOREA / 2017]
- Breathe [Daria Kasperek / POLAND / 2019]
- Colaholic [Marcin Podolec / POLAND / 2018]
- Fruits and Vegetables [Maciej Jankowski / POLAND / 2021]
- Boja [Anna Fernandez De Paco / BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, SPAIN, UK / 2022]
- Under One Roof [Wang Yu / CHINA, FRANCE / 2022]
- Aqueducts [Álvaro Martín Sanz / SPAIN / 2021]
- Late August [Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini / ITALY / 2021]
- The Power of Film Against the Landscape—From Yamagata to Bradford [Louisa Rose Mackleston / JAPAN, UK / 2022]
- Yamagata × Wagashi—A Future Built on Tradition [Producers: Local Support Collective BAQSAN / JAPAN / 2022]
- Tan: The Way of the Master Swordsmith KANBAYASHI Tsunehira [Nagaoka Hiroaki / JAPAN / 2023]
- The Sake of Yamagata: Mount Zao’s Blessing [Sato Koichi / JAPAN / 2022]
- A City with Orchestras [Sato Koichi / JAPAN / 2023]