International Competition Films
Entries in Total: 1,318 Films out of 129 Countries and Areas
[Venues] YC Yamagata Central Public Hall 6F, CL Yamagata Citizens’ Hall (Large Hall)
Feature-length works were sought from around the world, and from the 1,318 entries emerges a rigorous selection of fifteen cinematic gems, richly varied and representing the vanguard of world filmmaking.
- Another Home [Frankie Sin / TAIWAN, HONG KONG, FRANCE / 2024]
- Below the Clouds [Gianfranco Rosi / ITALY / 2025] [New]
- DIRECT ACTION [Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell / GERMANY, FRANCE, KOREA / 2024]
- L'Homme-Vertige: Tales of a City [Malaury Eloi Paisley / FRANCE, GUADELOUPE / 2024]
- I Was, I Am, and I Will Be! [Itakura Yoshiyuki / JAPAN / 2025]
- Letters to My Dead Parents [Ignacio Agüero / CHILE / 2025]
- Malqueridas [Tana Gilbert / CHILE, GERMANY / 2023]
- Park [So Yo-Hen / TAIWAN / 2024]
- Rising Up at Night [Nelson Makengo / CONGO (DRC), BELGIUM, GERMANY, BURKINA FASO, QATAR / 2024]
- The Seasons [Maureen Fazendeiro / PORTUGAL, FRANCE, AUSTRIA, SPAIN / 2025]
- Time to the Target [Vitaly Mansky / LATVIA, CZECH REPUBLIC, UKRAINE / 2025]
- TrepaNation [Ammar al-Beik / SYRIA, FRANCE, GERMANY / 2025]
- Welded Together [Anastasiya Miroshnichenko / FRANCE, THE NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM / 2025]
- A Window of Memories [Kiyohara Yui / JAPAN / 2023]
- With Hasan in Gaza [Kamal Aljafari / PALESTINE, GERMANY, FRANCE, QATAR / 2025]
(Alphabetically shown)