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YIDFF ’89 Screening List

| International Competition | Special Invitation Films |
| Works from Asia | The Dawn of Japanese Documentaries |
| A Salute to Robert and Frances Flaherty |

*=Additional Screenings

_ International Competition -
  • Azul [Roland Legiardi-Laura / USA / 1988]
  • The Crossroad Street [Ivars Seleckis / USSR / 1988 / The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize]
  • Dani, Michi, Renato and Max [Richard Dindo / SWITZERLAND / 1987]
  • The Eye above the Well [Johan van der Keuken / THE NETHERLANDS / 1988 / Runner-Up Prize]
  • The Invincible Ones [Andrzej Marek Drążewski / POLAND / 1988]
  • Lodz Ghetto [Alan Adelson, Kathryn Taverna / USA / 1988]
  • Nobody Listened [Nestor Almendros, Jorge Ulla / USA / 1988 / Runner-Up Prize]
  • One Hundred Children Waiting For a Train [Ignacio Agüero / CHILE / 1988]
  • Orí [Raquel Gerber / BRAZIL / 1989]
  • Over the Threshold [Christine Lloyd-Fitt, Tezuka Yoshi / JAPAN, UK / 1989 / Prize for Encouragement]
  • Philippines, My Philippines [Chris Nash / AUSTRALIA / 1988]
  • Plain Talk and Common Sense (Uncommon Senses) [Jon Jost / USA / 1987]
  • Route One / USA [Robert Kramer / FRANCE / 1989 / The Mayor’s Prize]
  • Time Has No Name [Stefan Jarl / SWEDEN / 1989 / Special Prize]
  • Weapons of the Spirit [Pierre Sauvage / USA, FRANCE / 1989 / Runner-Up Prize, Citizens’ Prize]
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Special Invitation Films
  • Afghan Spring [Tsuchimoto Noriaki, Kumagai Hiroko, Abdul Latif / JAPAN, AFGHANISTAN / 1989]
  • I Am Furious Yellow . . . [Kidlat Tahimik / PHILIPPINES / 1989]
  • Pan in “A” Minor: Steelbands of Trinidad [Daniel Verba, Jean-Jacques Mrejen / FRANCE/1987]
  • Pictures of the Old World [Dušan Hanák / CZECHOSLOVAKIA / 1972]
  • Ring of Light [Benoit Ferreux / FRANCE / 1988]
  • A Tale of the Wind [Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan / FRANCE / 1988]
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_ Works from Asia -
  • Bejalai [Stephen Teo / MALAYSIA / 1987] *
  • Cave [MALAYSIA] *
  • Coming and Going with the Wind [Yanagisawa Hisao / JAPAN / 1989] *
  • Garbage [Noel Lim / PHILIPPINES / 1989] *
  • The Horse Thief [Tian Zhuangzhuang / CHINA / 1985] *
  • May ’80—Dreamy Land [KOREA / 1988] *
  • On The Fringe of Society [Manop Udomdej / THAILAND / 1982] *
  • Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in Song [Nick Deocampo / PHILIPPINES / 1987] *
  • The Yellow Earth [Chen Kaige / CHINA / 1984] *
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_ The Dawn of Japanese Documentaries (–1945) -
  • An Account of a Bee [Ota Nikichi / 1936]
  • An Account of a Cabbage Butterfly [Ota Nikichi / 1936]
  • An Account of Salt [Ota Nikichi / 1935]
  • An Account of Strata [Ota Nikichi / 1937]
  • Behavior of Horses [1940] *
  • Birth of Beauty [1942] *
  • A Brook: Following the Stream [Nose Katsuo / 1934]
  • Children and Handicraft [Watanabe Yoshimi / 1941]
  • A Cormorant Fisherman [Matsumura Seishiro / 1941]
  • A Dancing Girl of Water [Aochi Chuzo / 1928]
  • The Day of the Public Duty for Asian Prosperity [1940]
  • The Expeditionary Force in West Siberia [circa 1921]
  • The Explosion of the Osaka Storehouse (Scenes from the Big Explosion in the Ajigawa, Osaka.) [1917]
  • Fighting Women [Nagatomi Eijiro / 1939]
  • The First Report of the Tokyo Earthquake [1923]
  • Forestry in Northern Japan [1943] *
  • The Foundation of Victory: Record of the Naval Academy [Nakagawa Norio / 1942]
  • A Frog [Ota Nikichi / 1932]
  • From Tokyo to Aomori [Aochi Chuzo / 1933]
  • The Funeral of Matsunosuke Onoe [1926]
  • The Funeral of Yama-Sen in Kyoto [1929]
  • The General Line [Furukawa Ryo / 1932]
  • H.I.H. the Crown Prince on a Visit to Europe [1921]
  • H.I.H. the Prince Regent Visits the Moving Photograph Exposition [1921]
  • Hurrah for Japan [1943]
  • Japanese Folk Song Anthology Part 5 [1937] *
  • The Kinki Region [1935]
  • Kobayashi Issa [Kamei Fumio / 1941]
  • The Land [Ko Shukichi / 1931]
  • Life of a Cicada [Ota Nikichi / 1936]
  • The Locomotive C57 [Imaizumi Yoshitama / 1941]
  • The Nippon News [1942-43]
  • One Day at a Dry Beach [Shimomura Kenji / 1940]
  • Our Weaponry, Tanks [Asaka Koji / 1941]
  • The Progress of a Train [Aochi Chuzo / 1932]
  • Record of a Kindergarten Teacher [Mizuki Soya / 1942]
  • Russo-Japanese War Reminiscence [circa 1905]
  • Sports [1931]
  • The Twelfth Tokyo May Day [1931]
  • TYOSEN [1938] *
  • The Union News No. 72 [1938]
  • Way of Life During the War [1943] *
  • A Woman Diver of Wagu [Ueno Kozo / 1941]
  • Young Flying Corps [Inoue Kan / 1940]
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A Salute to Robert and Frances Flaherty
  • Guernica [USA / 1949]
  • The Land [USA / 1942]
  • Louisiana Story [USA / 1948]
  • Man of Aran [USA / 1934]
  • Moana [USA / 1926]
  • Nanook of the North [USA / 1922]