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2017-03-17 | The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (April–May)

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


Please be aware that in April we are holding screenings at a different venue, Yamagata Manabikan, on April 15 (Sat).

Friday Theater Roadshow: Saturday Special Screening

8mm Films Special Screening: The 2nd “Survival 8
April 15 (Sat)    [Venue] Yamagata Manabikan
16:00 (screens once)
Part 1 (11 films / 62 min in total)
Saiteigi, Hanteigi (Dir: Hirata Masataka)
Ashi (Dir: Hayami Sayaka)
Kodachrome 40 sound movie film (Dir: Ota Yo)
Hong Kong (Dir: Mitsuya Yuka)
Shunko juso (Dir: Ishikawa Ryo)
Katsugimenoiroko (Dir: Oki Masaharu)
Sanbyo eiga (Dir: Yamamoto Tsukasa)
color film (Dir: Sueoka Ichiro)
Shitashii kagami (Dir: Okada Sakiko)
Getsumatsu (Dir: Morishita Akihiko)
clock-wise (Dir: Kawaguchi Hajime)

Part 2 (11 films / 71 min in total)
8mm nama film no subete (Dir: Okuyama Jun’ichi)
assemblage (Dir: Nakahara Chiyoko)
Tokakansei kaijo su (Dir: Ohashi Masaru)
Toki (Dir: Koike Teruo)
Vintage Mill (Dir: Kato Itaru)
marginale (Dir: Miyata Yasuko)
Kawaakago (Dir: Tokunaga Saika)
Survival 5 + 3 (Dir: Serizawa Yoichiro)
Sonan (Dir: Horiuchi Takatoshi)
Rangoon hatsu (Dir: Kawanaka Nobuhiro)
Ai ni yuku tsubu no koe (Dir: Oki Kayako)

* All films have been completed in 2016 and will be shown without English subtitles.


Welfare and Cinema
April 21 (Fri)
14:00, 19:00 (screens twice)
La Devinière
Dir: Benoit Dervaux / BELGIUM / 2000 / 35mm / 90 min / YIDFF 2001 International Competition
16:00 (single screening)
In the House of Angels
Dir: Margreth Olin / NORWAY / 1998 / 35mm / 97 min / YIDFF ’99 International Competition

Gypsy Barcelona
May 19 (Fri)
14:00, 19:00 (screens twice)
Bajarí, Gypsy Barcelona
Dir: Eva Vila / SPAIN / 2012 / Blu-ray / 84 min / YIDFF 2013 International Competition
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The Times Documented by Film
May 26 (Fri)
14:00, 19:00 (screens twice)
Snakeskin
Dir: Daniel Hui / SINGAPORE, PORTUGAL / 2014 / Blu-ray / 105 min / YIDFF 2015 New Asian Currents Award of Excellence
16:00 (single screening)
Accelerated Development—In the Idiom of Santiago Álvarez
Dir: Travis Wilkerson / USA / 1999 / 16mm / 56 min / YIDFF ’99 International Competition

[Venue]
April 15: Yamagata Manabikan (Yamagata City)
April 21, May 19, May 26: 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)