YIDFF 2009 Screening List

*=Additional Screenings

International Competition

• AUTO*MATE [Martin Mareček / CZECH REPUBLIC / 2009]
• Because We Were Born [Jean-Pierre Duret, Andrea Santana / FRANCE, BRAZIL / 2008]
• Driving Men [Susan Mogul / USA / 2008]
• Encirclement—Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy [Richard Brouillette / CANADA / 2008 / The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize]
• The Fortress [Fernand Melgar / SWITZERLAND / 2008 / Award of Excellence]
• I am Von Höfler (Variation on Werther) [Forgács Péter / HUNGARY / 2008]
• Japan: A Story of Love and Hate [Sean McAllister / UK, JAPAN / 2009 / Special Prize, Citizens’ Prize]
• The Lightning Testimonies [Amar Kanwar / INDIA / 2007]
• The Mother [Antoine Cattin, Pavel Kostomarov / SWITZERLAND, FRANCE, RUSSIA / 2007]
• The New Rijksmuseum [Oeke Hoogendijk / THE NETHERLANDS / 2008]
• Oblivion [Heddy Honigmann / THE NETHERLANDS, GERMANY / 2008 / The Mayor’s Prize]
• The Pier of Apolonovka [Andrei Schwartz / GERMANY / 2008]
• RiP! A Remix Manifesto [Brett Gaylor / CANADA / 2008]
• Staub (Dust) [Hartmut Bitomsky / GERMANY, SWITZERLAND / 2007]
• Z32 [Avi Mograbi / ISRAEL, FRANCE / 2008 / Award of Excellence]

Jurors’ Films

• From Language to Language [Nurith Aviv / FRANCE, GERMANY, ISRAEL / 2004]
• Fuck Cinema [Wu Wenguang / CHINA / 2005]
• Journeys with Kabir [Shabnam Virmani / INDIA / 2008]
• KI-SE-KI—gozoCiné [Yoshimasu Gozo / JAPAN / 2008]
• NA-MU [Oki Hiroyuki / JAPAN / 2004–2009]
• A Poet: Unconcealed Poetry [Garin Nugroho / INDONESIA / 1999]
• Who Will Guard the Guardman? Dalibor, or the Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin [Karel Vachek / CZECH REPUBLIC / 2002]

• Agrarian Utopia [Uruphong Raksasad / THAILAND / 2009]
• A Japanese Village—Furuyashikimura [Ogawa Shinsuke / JAPAN / 1982]
• Kotsunagi—Iriai, Commons in Japan [Nakamura Kazuo / JAPAN / 2009]
• Material & Memories [Hara Masato / JAPAN / 2009]
• Minamata Diary: Visiting Resurrected Souls [Tsuchimoto Noriaki / JAPAN / 2004]
• Spring: The Story of Hsu Chin-Yu [Tseng Wen-Chen / TAIWAN / 2002]

New Asian Currents

• American Alley [Kim Dong-ryung / KOREA / 2008 / Ogawa Shinsuke Prize]
• Bilal [Sourav Sarangi / INDIA / 2008 / Award of Excellence, Community Cinema Award]
• Chronicle of an Amnesiac [Anirban Datta / JAPAN / 2007]
• The Convert [Panu Aree, Kong Rithdee, Kaweenipon Ketprasit / THAILAND / 2008]
• Crescent Moon Over the Sea [Yuli Andari / INDONESIA / 2007]
• Death of the Poet [Elif Ergezen / TURKEY / 2009]
• Disorder [Huang Weikai / CHINA / 2009]
• Doctor Ma’s Country Clinic [Cong Feng / CHINA / 2008 / Directors Guild of Japan Award]
• The Fool Doesn’t Catch a Cold [Kim Kyung-man / KOREA / 2008]
• Green Rocking Chair [Roxlee / THE PHILIPPINES / 2008]
• I Wonder . . . [Anupama Srinivasan / INDIA / 2009]
• The Memory of Being Here [Kawabe Ryota / JAPAN / 2007]
• Nagai Park Elegy [Sato Leo, NDS / JAPAN / 2009]
• The Passionate Culture [Chung Kam-tong / HONG KONG / 2009]
• Samia [Ammar Albeik / SYRIA / 2008]
• Spiral Staircase of Harbin [Ji Dan / JAPAN / 2008 / Special Mention]
• This is Lebanon [Eliane Raheb / LEBANON / 2008 / Award of Excellence]
• Ximaojia Universe [Mao Chenyu / CHINA / 2009 / Special Mention]
• Yuri—About Loving [Azuma Mieko / GERMANY / 2008 / Citizens’ Prize]

• Seven Blind Woman Filmmakers [Head Director: Mohammad Shirvani / IRAN / 2008]
• Weabak: Stayed Out All Night [Kim Mi-re / KOREA / 2009]

• Annyong Yumika [Matsue Tetsuaki / 2009]
• Fat Chance [Sekiguchi Yuka / AUSTRALIA / 2008]
• Fence   Part One: Lost Paradise, Part Two: Fragmented Stratum [Fujiwara Toshi / 2008]
• Field Feet [Onishi Kenji / 2008]
• Hongara—Sacred Torch [Nagaoka Noa / 2008]
• Memory of spider and moth [Omori Hiroki / 2008]
• Path of Anna—Yesterday Today Tomorrow 2 [Naoi Riyo / JAPAN, THAILAND / 2009]
• Tanaka-san Will Not Do Calisthenics [Maree Delofski / AUSTRALIA / 2008]
• Ultimate Land—A Year of Iwasaki Onikenbai [Miyake Nagaru / 2008]
• A Whispered Life [Gilles Sionnet, Marie-Francine Le Jalu / FRANCE / 2009]

• Memories of Agano [Sato Makoto / JAPAN / 2004]
• Yasukuni [Li Ying / JAPAN / 2007]

• Accentuation [Jane Jin Kaisen / DENMARK, KOREA, JAPAN / 2005]
• Amami Film: In Memory of Miho-san [Yoshimasu Gozo / JAPAN / 2008]
• At the End of the Arc: Yaeyama Islands [Toyono Kosuke / JAPAN / 1964]
• dolce . . . [Alexander Sokurov / JAPAN, RUSSIA / 1999]
• each film . . . an island? [Kidlat Tahimik / THE PHILIPPINES / 2009]
• Exilée [Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / USA / 1980]
• Foreign Sky [Kum Soni / KOREA / 2005]
• Life on Distant Islands [Naeda Yasuo / JAPAN / 1961]
• Meta Ekologi [Gotot Prakosa / INDONESIA / 1979]
• Mouth to Mouth [Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / USA / 1975]
• Order [Jean-Daniel Pollet / FRANCE / 1974]
• Ovarian Chants [Maria Rosalie Zerrudo / THE PHILIPPINES / 2007] *
• Passages Paysages [Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / USA / 1978]
• Permutations [Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / USA / 1976]
• The Place Where I Live—and touch me [Higa Chiaki / JAPAN / 2004]
• Promised Paradise [Leonard Retel Helmrich / THE NETHERLANDS, INDONESIA / 2006]
• Puppet Shaman Star [Takamine Go / JAPAN / 2008]
• Re Dis Appearing [Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / USA / 1977]
• Reflection [Marutani Hajime / JAPAN / 2007]
• Secret Spill [Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / USA / 1974]
• The Sorceress of Dirah [Sardono W. Kusumo / INDONESIA / 1992]
• The Struggle Against Endemic Diseases [Kikuchi Shu / JAPAN / 1961]
• Vidéoème [Theresa Hak Kyung Cha / USA / 1976]
• Yellow Bridge [Maria Rosalie Zerrudo / JAPAN / 2009]

• Critique of Separation [FRANCE / 1961]
• Howls for Sade [FRANCE / 1952]
• In girum imus nocte et consummur igni (We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire) [FRANCE / 1978]
• On the Passage of a Few Persons Through a Rather Brief Unity of Time [FRANCE / 1959]
• Refutation of All Judgments, Whether in Praise or Hostile, Thus Far Rendered on the Film “The Society of the Spectacle” [FRANCE / 1975]
• The Society of the Spectacle [FRANCE / 1973]

• The Heart of Jenin [Marcus Vetter, Lior Geller / GERMANY / 2008]
• Kites [Beata Dzianowicz / POLAND / 2008]
• Let’s Be Together [Nanna Frank Møller / DENMARK / 2008]
• Megunica [Lorenzo Fonda / ITALY / 2008]
• Rough Aunties [Kim Longinotto / UK / 2008]

• Adachi Household Cinema [Circa 1935]
• The Apparition of Adolescence [Kagami Keigo / 2008]
• Bent with the Years [1949]
• Children’s Guardian [1950]
• Citizen’s Public Hall [1950]
• The Cumberland Story [1950]
• Discussion Techniques [1952]
• Facts about 16mm Film [1950]
• Introduction to America [1952]
• Ise Shima National Park [Honda Ishiro / 1949]
• Japanese Bride in America [1952]
• Let’s Square Dance [1950]
• Libraries without Bars [1950]
• Man of Aran [Robert J. Flaherty / USA / 1934]
• Night School [Honda Ishiro / 1956]
• Public Health Nurse [1951]
• Sato Kyukichi’s Home Movies [1931–1953]
• Seniors, Juniors, Co-Workers [Honda Ishiro / 1959]
• Shinjuku Legend—Nagisa Yoko Shinjuku Koma Gewa-gewa Recital [Kawanaka Nobuhiro / 2009]
• Son of the Earth [1958]
• Song for a Bride [Honda Ishiro / 1958]
• The War of the Gargantuas [Honda Ishiro / 1966]
• We Are All Singing Together [Kobayashi Kaori / 2009]
• Where Are the Germs? [1952]

• Hijiori, Cure Resort [Watanabe Satoshi / JAPAN / 2009]
• Seeing [Kato Itaru, Kano Shiho, Maeda Shinjiro, Inagaki Kanako, Okuno Kunitoshi, Oki Hiroyuki / JAPAN / 2009]

• Cut! The Rights of Japanese Film Directors [Ito Shunya / JAPAN / 2006]