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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)
2023-11-20	Sales: Catalog (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-10-17	Award Recipients: Jury Comments (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-10-14	Photo of Farewell Party (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-10-11	Award-winning works will be screened! (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-10-11	YIDFF 2023 Award Recipients (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-08-23	Festival Venues Access Tickets (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-08-05	New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films Perspectives Japan Noda Shinkichi Retrospective: A Festival of Things and Life Double Shadows 3 Yamagata and Film Cinema with Us 2023 Film Letter to the Future Yamagata Rough Cut! (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-07-10	International Competition Lineup YIDFF 2023 Official Poster Design (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-05-21	YIDFF 2023 Overview View People View Cities—The World of UNESCO Creative Cities (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-05-16	Official open call for entries ended.
2023-05-10	Call for Yamagata Rough Cut! Participants (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2023-04-17	YIDFF 2023 Call for Entries: Deadline for New Asian Currents Approaches!
2023-03-25	YIDFF 2023 Call for Entries: Deadline for the International Competition is Approaching!
2022-12-13	YIDFF 2023 Call for Entries: First Deadline Is Approaching!
2022-09-01	YIDFF 2023 Call for Entries (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2022-07-29	Poster Design (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2022-07-29	Announcement of Dates for YIDFF 2023! Call for Entries for YIDFF 2023
2022-07-01	YIDFF 2023 Information View People View Cities—The World of UNESCO Creative Cities: Call for Entries (YIDFF 2023 Information)
2022-06-22	“Dr. Markus’ Yamagata Musings” is now available on Docu-Yama Live!
2022-03-23	YIDFF 2021 Visual Booklet (Publications)
2022-01-12	Sharing Air, Living Time: January event (YIDFF 2021 Information)
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From the YIDFF Office

2024-08-16	In Memoriam
2024-01-28	New Year’s Greetings
2023-11-29	YIDFF 2023: The Festival is Over
2023-01-21	Happy New Year!
2022-12-13	YIDFF 2021 on the Big Screen
2022-12-13	Remembering Takahashi Takuya
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Workshop

2024-02-29	Yamagata Bunka no Kairo Festival 2024 / Yamagin Kenmin Hall Open House 2024: Kids Film Workshop
2023-11-29	Yamagata Documentary Dojo 6 Open call for entries 26-day residency in Feb. 2024!
2023-04-11	Video from the 13th Kids Film Workshop
2023-04-06	Video from the Kids Film Workshop 2023-03-26
2023-02-24	Yamagata Documentary DOJO 5 End-of-residency Presentations
2023-02-24	Yamagata Bunka no Kairo Festival 2023 / Yamagin Kenmin Hall Open House 2023: Kids Film Workshop
2023-02-24	The 13th “Kids Film Workshop” at the Yamagata Documentary Film Library: “Let’s try making your film and showing it!”
2022-02-05	The 12th “Kids Film Workshop” at the Yamagata Documentary Film Library: “Explore the World of Animation!”
2022-02-05	Yamagata Bunka no Kairo Festival 2022: Kids Film Workshop “Let’s create animations!”
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YIDFF 2021 ON SCREEN!

2022-09-15	YIDFF 2021 ON SCREEN! (YIDFF 2021 ON SCREEN! Information)
2022-07-29	YIDFF 2021 revival screening “YIDFF 2021 ON SCREEN!”

Documentary Dream Show—Yamagata in Tokyo 2024

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

Screenings

2024-09-27	The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (December)
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
2023-12-14	Screenings about the Palestine-Israel conflict
2023-11-21	The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (December–January)
2023-10-31	The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (November)
2023-07-07	The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (August)
2023-04-28	The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (June–July)
2023-03-17	The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (April–May)
2023-02-24	Yamagata Bunka no Kairo Festival 2023 / Yamagin Kenmin Hall Open House 2023 Book-Paper-Scissors Screening and Kids Film Workshop
2023-01-14	The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (February–March)
2022-11-11	The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (December–January)
2022-09-22	The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (November)
2022-07-22	Yamagin Kenmin Hall Outdoor Cinema
2022-06-30	Zao in Film
2022-06-30	The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (August–September)
2022-05-06	The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (June–July)
2022-03-13	The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (April–May)
2022-02-05	Yamagata Bunka no Kairo Festival 2022
2022-01-13	Made in Japan YAMAGATA 1989–2021
2022-01-13	The YAMAGATA Documentary Film Library Friday Theater (February–March)
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Other Screenings

2024-03-23	YIDFF Films: Theater Information
2024-01-22	Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege, A World Not Ours Screenings in Shimotakaido Cinema
2023-12-14	Sapporo Documentary Film Screening
2023-11-24	Independent Screenings: Encountering Palestinian Voices
2023-06-21	YAMAGATA in Hiroshima—Special Selection from YIDFF 2021
2023-02-24	Cachada—The Opportunity Free Screening
2023-01-21	The 14th ZA-KOENJI Documentary Festival
2022-11-28	YIDFF 2021 Films: Theater Information
2022-09-15	Tact 1 day cinema
2022-08-19	Aichi International Women’s Film Festival 2022
2022-08-19	26th Art Film Festival
2022-07-22	Film Journeys on Mountains
2022-06-29	Apichatpong in the Woods 2022 (Kobe)
2022-05-25	Sendai Short Film Festival 2022
2022-05-10	Athénée Français Cultural Center: Athenee Francais Cinematheque
2022-05-03	Apichatpong in the Woods 2022 (Osaka) Apichatpong in the Woods 2022 (Yokohama)
2022-04-23	Sapporo Cultural Arts Community Center: Documentary Film Screening
2022-04-21	Apichatpong in the Woods 2022 (Nagano)
2022-03-22	Peru Film Festival (Nagoya)
2022-03-18	Apichatpong in the Woods 2022
2022-02-15	Athénée Français Cultural Center: Ogawa Shinsuke Retrospective
2022-02-04	The 13th ZA-KOENJI Documentary Festival
2022-01-18	Screening of Standing Men
2022-01-18	Peru Film Festival (Kyoto, Yokohama, Osaka)
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Other Information

2022-03-21	Virtual Bodies: Absence/Presence in Media

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