YIDFF 2009 Interviews

International Competition

• Yoshimasu Gozo, juror of the International Competition
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• Martin Mareček, director of AUTO*MATE
• Jean-Pierre Duret, Andrea Santana, directors of Because We Were Born
• Susan Mogul, director of Driving Men
• Richard Brouillette, director of Encirclement—Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy
• Fernand Melgar, director of The Fortress
• Sean McAllister, director of Japan: A Story of Love and Hate
• Amar Kanwar, director of The Lightning Testimonies
• Antoine Cattin, director of The Mother
• Oeke Hoogendijk, director of The New Rijksmuseum
• Heddy Honigmann, director of Oblivion
• Andrei Schwartz, director of The Pier of Apolonovka
• Brett Gaylor, director of RiP! A Remix Manifesto
• Hartmut Bitomsky, director of Staub (Dust)
• Avi Mograbi, director of Z32

New Asian Currents

• Oki Hiroyuki, juror of New Asian Currents
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• Ammar Albeik, director of Samia
• Eliane Raheb, director of This is Lebanon
• Elif Ergezen, director of Death of the Poet
• Anupama Srinivasan, director of I Wonder . . .
• Sourav Sarangi, director of Bilal
• Anirban Datta, director of Chronicle of an Amnesiac
• Panu Aree, director of The Convert
• Roxlee, director of Green Rocking Chair
• Yuli Andari, director of Crescent Moon Over the Sea
• Cong Feng, director of Doctor Ma’s Country Clinic
• Chung Kam-tong, director of The Passionate Culture
• Mao Chenyu, director of Ximaojia Universe
• Huang Weikai, director of Disorder
• Ji Dan, director of Spiral Staircase of Harbin
• Kim Dong-ryung, director of American Alley
• Kim Kyung-man, director of The Fool Doesn’t Catch a Cold
• Azuma Mieko, director of Yuri—About Loving
• Sato Leo, director of Nagai Park Elegy
• Kawabe Ryota, director of The Memory of Being Here
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• Kim Mi-re, director of Weabak: Stayed Out All Night

New Docs Japan

• Fujiwara Toshi, director of Fence
• Matsue Tetsuaki, director of Annyong Yumika
• Miyake Nagaru, director of Ultimate Land—A Year of Iwasaki Onikenbai
• Nagaoka Noa, director of Hongara—Sacred Torch
• Onishi Kenji, director of Field Feet
• Omori Hiroki, director of Memory of spider and moth
• Sekiguchi Yuka, director of Fat Chance
• Naoi Riyo, director of Path of Anna—Yesterday Today Tomorrow 2
• Maree Delofski, director of Tanaka-san Will Not Do Calisthenics
• Gilles Sionnet, Marie-Francine Le Jalu, directors of A Whispered Life

Islands / I Lands—Cinemas in Exile

• Sardono W. Kusumo, director of The Sorceress of Dirah
• Kum Soni, director of Foreign Sky
• Kidlat Tahimik, director of each film . . . an island?
• Higa Chiaki, director of The Place Where I Live—and touch me
• Marutani Hajime, director of Reflection

Films about Yamagata

• Kawanaka Nobuhiro, director of Shinjuku Legend—Nagisa Yoko Shinjuku Koma Gewa-gewa Recital
• Kobayashi Kaori, director of We Are All Singing Together
• Kagami Keigo, director of The Apparition of Adolescence

YIDFF Network Special Screenings

• Watanabe Satoshi, director of Hijiori, Cure Resort
• Kato Itaru, director of Seeing
• Oki Hiroyuki, director of Seeing