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Screenings at the Yamagata Documentary Film Library present documentaries and movies rarely shown on television or in theaters, including works from the Film Library vaults.

The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater

YIDFF 2013 Encore Screenings Plus: Hanabusa Aya
• February 14 (Fri)  
14:00, 19:00 (screens twice)

Tale of a Butcher Shop
Dir: Hanabusa Aya / JAPAN / 2013 / 108 min / YIDFF 2013 Perspectives Japan

16:15 (single screening)

Holy Island
Dir: Hanabusa Aya / JAPAN / 2010 / 105 min

YIDFF 2013 Encore Screenings Part 7: Cinema with Us 2013
• February 28 (Fri)  
14:00, 19:00 (screens twice)

Sewers Recovery of Sendai
Dir: Takano Hiroyuki / JAPAN / 2013 / 30 min / YIDFF 2013 Cinema with Us 2013
My Neighbors in Haramachi, Minamisoma
Dir: Oka Tatsuya / JAPAN / 2013 / 60 min / YIDFF 2013 Cinema with Us 2013

* A brief Q&A with directors is scheduled after 19:00 session.

1930s Classics: Jean Vigo
• March 14 (Fri)  
14:00, 19:00 (screens twice)

À propos de Nice
Dir: Jean Vigo / FRANCE / 1930 / 25 min
Taris, roi de l’eau
Dir: Jean Vigo / FRANCE / 1931 / 10 min
Zéro de conduite: Jeunes diables au collège
Dir: Jean Vigo / FRANCE / 1933 / 41 min
Source: Kobe Planet Film Archive

1930s Classics: New Deal Documentaries
• March 28 (Fri)  
14:00, 19:00 (screens twice)

The Plow That Broke the Plains
Dir: Pare Lorentz / USA / 1936 / 28 min
The River
Dir: Pare Lorentz / USA / 1937 / 31 min
The City
Dir: Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke / USA / 1939 / 44 min
Source: Kobe Planet Film Archive, Naxos Japan

[Venue]

The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library (Yamagata Big Wing 3F)

[Admission]

Free admission for members (Member’s fee: free)

[Presented by]

YIDFF (NPO)

[Contact]

phone: 023-666-4480 (YIDFF Yamagata office)