| 2002-08-26 | | | “Post Fiction!” the <YAMAGATA+> Film Festival Program G–N |
Program | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N |
Program G–N
* In English or with English subtitles
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Program G / Living Here
How will you live on this land into which you have been born? A poverty-wracked village in eastern Turkey, a dusty highway in Cambodia, and a forced repatriation detainment camp for migrant workers. Let’s celebrate the human will and unlimited optimism of people facing adversity or struggling to make a living on the land that they have chosen.
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The Land of the Wandering Souls - (Rithy Panh / FRANCE) *
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Vanished with Water- (Dogan Karaca, others / TURKEY) *
- Jari Mari: Of Cloth and Other Stories
- (Surabhi Sharma / INDIA) *
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Days in Those Mountains- (Wang Haibing / CHINA) *
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My Migrant Soul- (Yasmine Kabir / BANGLADESH) *
- The Falling Kite
- (Hsiao Mei-ling / FRANCE, TAIWAN) *
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Chichi, the Monster- (Lin Tay-jou / TAIWAN) *
- Farewell
- (Hwang Yun / KOREA) *
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Sowing Seeds- (Avic Ilagan / PHILIPPINES) *
- Koryu: Southern Women, South Korea
- (soha / KOREA) *
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Along the Railway- (Du Haibin / CHINA) *
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Rosetta- (Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne/ FRANCE, BELGIUM)
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La Devinière- (Benoit Dervaux / BELGIUM) *
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The Hearts That Can’t See the Sun- Hummadruz
- (Hasan Karacadag / TURKEY) *
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Program H / The World of Kamei Fumio
“Fighting filmmaker” Kamei Fumio made PR films about underwear? This program that drew fans of all ages at YIDFF ’01 is your chance to discover the unknown sides of this filmmaker, known as a pioneer of Japanese documentary film. From features to PR films to documentaries, you’ll find a Kamei Fumio worth discovering.
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Shanghai - Peking
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Fighting Soldiers- Kobayashi Issa
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Let’s Weave a Rainbow- Underwear Makes the Woman
- The Models and the Photographer
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War and Peace
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Still It’s Good to Live- Record of Blood: Sunagawa
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All Living Things Are Friends—Lullabies of Birds, Insects and Fish
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Human Conceit: The World of Director Kamei Fumio- (Tezuka Yo / JAPAN)
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Program I / Required Viewing! The YIDFF's Top Five
Five of the most popular films in YIDFF’s 13-year history. Comes with our highest recommendations!
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Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. - (Errol Morris / USA) *
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Relics: Einstein’s Brain- (Kevin Hull / UK) *
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Metal and Melancholy- (Heddy Honigmann / THE NETHERLANDS)
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Amsterdam Global Village- (Johan van der Keuken / THE NETHERLANDS)
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One Hundred Children Waiting For a Train- (Ignacio Agero / CHILE)
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Program J / No One Knows Nouvelle Vague Like Kuroki Kazuo
The new wave of cinema that shook the world in the late 1950s and 1960s was marked by a collapsing of documentary and fiction and by photography and editing free from the bounds of film studios. Find out how Kuroki Kazuo was the real man behind it all in Japan.
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The Seawall - Reportage: Fire
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The Seas Are Full of Sheep in Love- Record of a Marathon Runner
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Silence Has No Wings
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Hokkaido, My Love- Gunma
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A Cuban Lover
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Program K / The 20th Century in Cinematic Panorama
“Post Fiction!” is not visual records. We trace human memories that are not records across the world map. From Taiwan and the PRC to the fall of the Soviet Union, colonialism in Brazil and the bombing of Hiroshima, this 20th history is no textbook, it’s a pictorial scroll to unwind. And like any visual source, we're expecting many readings!
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Grandma’s Hairpin - (Hsiao Chu-chen / TAIWAN) *
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Once Upon a Time- (Panu Aree / THAILAND) *
- Private Chronicles. Monologue
- (Vitalij Manskij / RUSSIA) *
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The Masters and the Slaves- (Nelson Pereira dos Santos / BRAZIL) *
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My Wife’s Features- (Kawamoto Akito / JAPAN)
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Buenaventura Durruti, Anarchist- (Jean-Louis Comolli / SPAIN, FRANCE) *
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Program L/ Music Cheers the World
What would we do without music? There’s always music playing somewhere, so we can be happy even when bad things happen. A hand-picked group of works that express the joy of music with truth and sincerity. Singing and dancing welcomed.
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Musicians - (Don Askarian / ARMENIA, GERMANY, THE NETHERLANDS) *
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The Underground Orchestra- (Heddy Honigmann / THE NETHERLANDS) *
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Crazy- (Heddy Honigmann / THE NETHERLANDS) *
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Texas Tenor: The Illinois Jacquet Story- (Arthur Elgort / USA)
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Carmen Miranda: Banana Is My Business- (Helena Solberg / BRAZIL, USA)
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Program M / A Special Screening of Kawase Naomi’s New Work
It’s no exaggeration to say that director Kawase Naomi got her start at YIDFF. Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom is a definitive work from a filmmaker whose personal documentaries continue to enthrall the world.
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Letter from a Yellow Cherry Blossom - (Kawase Naomi / Japan)
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Program N / Hooray for Japanese Girls!
From professional women wrestlers to Takaraziennes to onabe FTM hosts in Tokyo’s sex capital Kabuki-cho, English documentary filmmakers’, Kim Longinotto and Jano Williams, images of “Japanese women” live in many different worlds. The secret passions, tears, pressures and laughter of "Nippon girls" explode from these three works. Life is a magnificent thing!
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Gaea Girls - (Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams / UK)
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Dream Girls- Shinjuku Boys
- (Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams / UK)