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2026-05-22 Film Search has been renewed
2026-04-29 “YIDFF 2025 Interview Collection” Released
YIDFF 2025 Visual Booklet Released
Digitized Catalogs from the YIDFF’s Early Editions Now Available
2026-03-31 YIDFF 2025 Visual Booklet (Publications)
2026-03-30 Conversations with Documentary: YIDFF 2025 Interview Collection (Interviews)
2025-11-18 Crowdfunding to Create a Collection of YIDFF 2025 Guest Interviews (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-10-20 Award Recipients: Jury Comments (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-10-18 Photo of Farewell Party (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-10-15 Award-winning works will be screened! (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-10-15 YIDFF 2025 Award Recipients (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-08-21 YIDFF Network Special Screening (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-08-13 New Asian Currents
Special Invitation Films
Perspectives Japan
Cinema with Us 2025
Film Letter to the Future
Yamagata Rough Cut!
YIDFF Classics on Digital
Cinematic Heritage in Our Communities
Events
Festival Venues
Access
Tickets (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-07-17 Call for Applications: YIDFF 2025 Film Criticism Workshop (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-07-08 International Competition Lineup
YIDFF 2025 Official Poster Design (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-05-24 YIDFF 2025 Overview
Programs
American Direct Cinema
Palestine—Memory of the Land
Yamagata and Film
View People View Cities—The World of UNESCO Creative Cities 2025
Call for Yamagata Rough Cut! Participants
Related Events (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2025-05-16 Official open call for entries ended.
2025-04-17 YIDFF 2025 Call for Entries: Deadline for the New Asian Currents is Approaching!
2025-03-17 YIDFF 2025 Call for Entries: Deadline for the International Competition is Approaching!
2024-12-09 YIDFF 2025 Call for Entries: First Deadline Is Approaching!
2024-09-01 YIDFF 2025 Call for Entries (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2024-07-29 Poster Design (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2024-07-29 Announcement of Dates for YIDFF 2025!
Call for Entries for YIDFF 2025
2024-07-01 YIDFF 2025 Information
View People View Cities—The World of UNESCO Creative Cities 2025: Call for Entries (YIDFF 2025 Information)
2024-05-27 Conversations with Documentary: YIDFF 2023 Interview Collection (Interviews)
2024-03-29 YIDFF 2023 Visual Booklet (Publications)
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From the YIDFF Office

2026-02-02 Greetings for the New Year
2025-12-15 YIDFF 2025 in Numbers
2025-11-18 YIDFF 2025 Closed: With Gratitude
2025-01-23 New Year’s Greetings
2024-08-16 In Memoriam
2024-01-28 New Year’s Greetings
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Workshop

2024-02-29 Yamagata Bunka no Kairo Festival 2024 / Yamagin Kenmin Hall Open House 2024: Kids Film Workshop
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Documentary Dream Show—Yamagata in Tokyo 2024

2024-09-04 Documentary Dream Show—Yamagata in Tokyo 2024

Screenings

2026-04-22 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (June–July)
2026-03-10 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (April–May)
2026-02-02 Premier Screening: Imoni Bunka Tankyuki from “Yamagata Renaissance 2025”
2026-02-02 Friday Theater Special Edition: Stories from the Chestnut Woods
2026-01-28 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (March)
2025-11-05 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (December–January)
2025-10-21 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (November)
2025-07-08 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (August)
2025-05-01 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (June–July)
2025-03-21 Yamagata Bunka no Kairo Festival 2025 / Yamagin Kenmin Hall Open House 2025
Screening of The Twilight Samurai
2025-03-07 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (April–May)
2025-01-28 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (March)
2025-01-10 Friday Theater Special Edition + Yamagata Film School for Citizens: TV Documentaries produced by Local Yamagata TV stations; Featuring TUY
2024-09-27 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (December–January)
2024-09-26 YIDFF 2025 Preliminary Event: “Envisioning a New Public Sphere for the Future”
2024-09-26 Films under the Blessing of the Great Mountains 2024
2024-09-13 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (November)
2024-07-11 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (August–September)
2024-05-01 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (June–July)
2024-03-08 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (April–May)
2024-02-29 Yamagata Bunka no Kairo Festival 2024 / Yamagin Kenmin Hall Open House 2024
“Welcome to the World of Stop-motion Animation!”
2024-02-19 The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (March)
2024-01-28 Friday Theater Special Edition + Yamagata Film School for Citizens: TV Documentaries produced by Local Yamagata TV stations; Featuring SAY
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Other Screenings

2026-02-02 YIDFF Films: Theater Information
2026-02-02 Thinking about the History of Palestine and Oil: Screening A Stone’s Throw
2025-12-27 Documentary and Drunk: Screening The Collaborator and His Family
2025-04-10 YIDFF Films: Theater Information
2025-01-23 Screening Three Films about Women Living in the U.S. Military Base Town in South Kore
2024-12-14 Special Screening “All about Frederick Wiseman”
2024-03-23 YIDFF Films: Theater Information
2024-01-22 Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege, A World Not Ours Screenings in Shimotakaido Cinema
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