japanese

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YIDFF 2023     [October 5–12]
International Competition, New Asian Currents, Special Invitation film, Perspectives Japan, Noda Shinkichi Retrospective, Double Shadows 3, Yamagata and Film, Cinema with Us 2023, Film Letter to the Future, Yamagata Rough Cut!, Yamagata Film Criticism Workshop, View People View Cities, Enchanting Tohoku through Open-air Cinema!!, YIDFF Network Special Screening

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YIDFF 2021     [October 7–14] (Online Film Festival)
International Competition, New Asian Currents, Special Invitation film, Perspectives Japan, Film Letter to the Future, Yamagata and Film, Cinema with Us 2021, Yamagata Rough Cut!, Yamagata Film Criticism Workshop, “Sharing Air, Living Time” (Collaboration project with TFAI Taiwan), Agency for Cultural Affairs Documentary Film Awards

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YIDFF 2019     [October 10–17]
International Competition, Jurors’ Films, Special Invitation films, New Asian Currents, Perspectives Japan, Yamagata Rough Cut!, AM/NESIA: Forgotten “Archipelagos” of Oceania, Double Shadows 2, Reality and Realism: Iran 60s–80s, The Creative Treatment of Grierson in Wartime Japan, Rustle of Spring, Whiff of Gunpowder: Documentaries from Northeast India, Yamagata and Film, Cinema with Us 2019, YIDFF Network Special Screenings, Finnish Sauna and Film, Yamagata Film Criticism Workshop

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YIDFF 2017     [October 5–12]
International Competition, Jurors’ Films, Special Invitation films, New Asian Currents, Perspectives Japan, Yamagata Rough Cut!, Africa Views, Resonant Bodies—Fredi M. Murer Retrospective, Politics and Film: Palestine and Lebanon 70s–80s, Yamagata and Film, Cinema with Us 2017, YIDFF Network Special Screening, Yamagata Film Criticism Workshop

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YIDFF 2015     [October 8–15]
International Competition, Jurors’ Films, Special Invitation films, New Asian Currents, Perspectives Japan, Yamagata Rough Cut!, Latinoamérica, Double Shadows, Past and Future Stories of the Arab Peoples, A Glittering Constellation, Yamagata and Film, Cinema with Us 2015, YIDFF Network Special Screening, Yamagata Film Criticism Workshop

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YIDFF 2013     [October 10–17]
International Competition, Jurors’ Films, Special Invitation films, New Asian Currents, Perspectives Japan, Yamagata Rough Cut!, Memories of the Future: Chris Marker’s Travels and Trials, The Ethics Machine: Six Gazes of the Camera, Another Side of the “Arab Spring,” Yamagata and Film, Cinema with Us 2013, Yamagata Manabikan, YIDFF Network Special Screenings, Yamagata Film Criticism Workshop

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YIDFF 2011     [October 8–15]
International Competition, Jurors’ Films, Special Invitation films, New Asian Currents, New Docs Japan, Islands / I Lands, NOW—Vista de Cuba, My Television, A Reunion of Taiwan and Japanese Filmmakers: 12 Years Later, Films about Yamagata, Cinema with Us, Yamagata Manabikan, Yamagata University Presents, YIDFF Network Special Screening, Art Documentary Program, Family Film and Animation Wonderland 2011, Yamagata Film Critics’ Workshop

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YIDFF 2009     [October 8–15]
International Competition, Jurors’ Films, Special Invitation films, New Asian Currents, New Docs Japan, Islands / I Lands—Cinemas in Exile, Against Cinema—Guy Debord Retrospective, Tomorrow’s a Day Away, Films about Yamagata, AND Presents: Image and Documentary, YIDFF Network Special Screenings

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YIDFF 2007     [October 4–11]
International Competition, Jurors’ Films, Special Invitation films, New Asian Currents, Facing the Past—German Documentaries, Dramatic Science! Yamagata Science Theater, Films about Yamagata, The Endurance and Future of 8mm Movies, New Docs Japan, AND Presents: Sound and Documentary, YIDFF Network Special Screenings

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YIDFF 2005     [October 7–13]
International Competition, Jurors’ Films, Special Invitation films, New Asian Currents, BORDERS WITHIN—What It Means to Live in Japan, all about me? Japanese and Swiss Personal Documentaries, Yunnan Visual Forum in Yamagata, Facing the Future and Walking Tall—the Endeavors of Taiwan’s “FullShot,” New Docs Japan, YIDFF Network Special Screenings

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YIDFF 2003     [October 10–16]
International Competition, Jurors’ Films, Special Invitation films, New Asian Currents, New Docs Japan, Learning, Teaching, Filmmaking, Yamagata Newsreel!, Okinawa—Nexus of Borders: Ryukyu Reflections, The 18th National Cultural Festival “YAMAGATA 2003” Documentary Festival

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YIDFF 2001     [October 3–9]
International Competition, Jurors’ Films, Special Invitation Films, New Asian Currents, New Asian Currents Invitation Films, New Asian Currents Special, Robert Kramer Retrospective, Kamei Fumio Retrospective, Japanese Panorama, YIDFF Network Special Screenings, High School Student Workshop, Japanese Classic Films

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YIDFF ’99     [October 19–25]
International Competition, Jurors’ Films, New Asian Currents, Video Activism in Japan and Korea, Full Shot & Cinema Juku, World Special Program, Japanese Panorama, Ogawa Productions Program, Yanagisawa Hisao Retrospective, A Joris Ivens Retrospective, YIDFF Network Special Screenings, Japanese Classic Films

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YIDFF ’97     [October 6–13]
International Competition, Jurors’ Films, Special Invitation Films, New Asian Currents, The Pursuit of Japanese Documentary: The 1980s and Beyond, Japanese Panorama, Imperial Japan at the Movies, YIDFF Network Special Screenings, Japanese Classic Films

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YIDFF ’95     [October 3–9]
International Competition, Jurors’ Films, Special Invitation Films, New Asian Currents, Japanese Documentaries of the 1970s, 7 Spectres: Transfigurations in Electronic Shadows, 7 Spectres—The Lumière Brothers and Their Cameramen, YIDFF Network Special Screenings, Japanese Classic Films

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YIDFF ’93     [October 5–11]
International Competition, Jurors’ Films, Special Invitation Films, Asia Program, Japanese Documentaries of the 1960s, In Memory of Ogawa Shinsuke, In Our Own Eyes / First Nations’ Moving Images, Japanese Films Panorama Theater, YIDFF Network Special Screenings, Japanese Classic Films

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YIDFF ’91     [October 7–13]
International Competition, Jurors’ Films, Special Invitation Films, The Asia Program, The Post-war Flourishing of Japanese Documentary, Media Wars: Then & Now, Japanese Films Panorama Theater

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YIDFF ’89     [October 10–15]
International Competition, Special Invitation Films, Works from Asia, The Dawn of Japanese Documentaries, A Salute to Robert and Frances Flaherty