>> Catalog 2025

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International Competition (IC), Juror Films (JUROR), New Asian Currents (NAC), Special Invitation Films (SI), Perspectives Japan (JP), Unscripted: The Art of Direct Cinema (DC), Palestine (PL), Yamagata and Film (YF), YIDFF Classics on Digital (YC), Cinema with Us 2025 (CU), Film Letter to the Future (FL), View People View Cities (UCC), Yamagata Creative Cities International Conference 2025: Cinematic Heritage in Our Communities (Conference), Yamagata Rough Cut! (YR), YIDFF Network Special Screening (NET)

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A, B

Another Home (IC) Appalachian Lenses (JP) Arrival of Sir William Slim, Rangoon (DC) As Day Goes By (UCC) At Shoin (YR)

At the Triangle Intersection (CU) ------------------------------ Back to Ghawas (FL) Below the Clouds (IC) Breaking it Up at the Museum (SI) (DC)

C, D

The Chair (DC) Chiefs (DC) Cicero March (DC) The City of Bougainvillea (JUROR) Collective Dreams Stitched into December (NAC) Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (DC) Cut Piece, 1964/1965 (SI) (DC) CycleMahesh (NAC) ------------------------------ Dancing Palestine (NAC)

The Days Before Christmas (DC) Dear Young Lady, a Sheet of Record (JUROR) Dekunobo: War and PTSD (YF) The Demands of Ordinary Devotion (UCC) Direct Action (IC) Do We Go against the Times?: The Two “Nohs” of Kurokawa (YF) Don’t Shoot My Back—The Life of Actor Junkichi Orimoto (JP) Dont Look Back (DC)

E, F

8mm Film by Dr. Ting Ray-yü (YF) 8mm Film by Masuya Jiro (YF) 8mm Film by Photographer Hsu Tsang-tse (YF) Emergency Ward (DC) ------------------------------ Faces of November (DC) Feb 11, 1990 Rough Cut Screening: The Other Version (YF)

Fertile Memory (PL) A Fidai Film (PL) Film, the Living Record of Our Memory (Conference) Forest of Bliss (DC) 45 Years of Overtures: Challenges of the Yamagata Symphony Orchestra (YF)

G, H

Generals Inspect British 36th Div Headquarters (DC) Gimme Shelter (DC) Good Valley Stories (SI) Grey Gardens (DC) ------------------------------ Hair, Paper, Water... (NAC) Hakishka (NAC) Happy Mother’s Day (DC)

Harlan County, USA (DC) Hikari no Seiso: A Visual Collection from the Former Yoshiike Clinic with Original Theme Music (YF) Home For Life (DC) L’Homme-Vertige: Tales of a City (IC) The House at Pooneil Corners (excerpt from 1 P.M.) (SI) (DC) The House Within (UCC) The Hydromantic (Working Title) (YR)

I, J

I Was, I Am, and I Will Be! (IC) In Love with Baseball! Another Story: 1100 Days with the Seizan High School Girl’s Hardball Baseball Club (YF) In That Dammmn Old Day (Working Title) (YR) In Their Traces (NET)

Japanese Surrender Preliminaries in China, Chihkiang (DC) Jazz Dance (DC) Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barber Shops) (DC)

K, L

Keep Your Left Hand Down (JUROR) Kings and Extras (JUROR) (PL) ------------------------------ Labyrinth of Dreams (JUROR) The Land of Regeneration (CU) The Last Visit (NAC)

Law and Order (DC) Letters to My Dead Parents (IC) Light Horizon (PL) Looking for Robert (JUROR) Luo Luo’s Future (NAC)

M, N

Madame soie Cévennes (YF) A Magical Substance Flows into Me (PL) Malqueridas (IC) The Man Who Saw Yokai: The World of Ito Chuta, a Giant of Modern Architecture (YF) Meet Marlon Brando (DC) Memories That Sheep Carry: Genghis Khan in Zao Onsen (UCC) Mirror Works ’89: Yamagata Central Public Hall (YF)

Modernization Heritage of Yamagata (YF) Monterey Pop (DC) A Movie Capital (YF) My Blue Heaven (JP) ------------------------------ Narita: Heta Village (SI) A Natural Look: 900 Days with a “Gal” in a Wheelchair (YF) No Exorcism Film (NAC)

O, P

“150 Years of Cherry Cultivation”: The Ruby-like Treasures that Connect with the Future (YF) On the Bowery (DC) Once Upon a Time, TV (FL)

Panola (SI) (DC) Park (IC) Primary (DC)

Q, R

Les raquetteurs (DC) Return: Yamagata × Hualien 1960s (YF) Reunion: 35 Years of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (UCC) Rising Up at Night (IC)

Rokkoku Kitchen (CU) Route One/USA (YC) The Ruptured Railway: The Resolution Needed to Restore the Yonesaka Line (YF)

S, T

Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza (PL) The Seasons (IC) Seventeen (DC) The Shape of the Wind (JP) Sharing the Appeal of Zao Hot Springs (YF) Shot the Voice of Freedom (NAC) Sie... (NAC) Siesta (UCC) The Silent Path (NAC) 16mm Film by Sato Kyukichi (YF) Someone to Sing Over Me (JUROR) Someone’s Wife in the Boat of Someone’s Husband (JUROR) Song of the Craftsmen: Documenting the Restoration of the Former Yamagata Prefectural Office, an Important Cultural Property (YF) Spi (NAC)

Spring, On the Shores of Aga (JP) A Stone’s Throw (NAC) Stopover (UCC) Such a Beautiful Town (UCC) Sunny Spot: Story of a Beloved Local Supermarket (UCC) ------------------------------ The Tales of the Tale (NAC) The Three Shonais: The Land of Dreams for Outsiders (YF) 3350 KM (NAC) Time Has No Name (YC) Time to the Target (IC) To a Land Unknown (PL) To Insist (UCC) Track_ing (NAC) TrepaNation (IC)

U, V

The Voices of the Silenced (SI)

W, X

The War Room (DC) Welded Together (IC) What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov? (NAC) When the Trees Sway, the Heart Stirs (NAC) Why Is Yellow Middle of Rainbow? (SI) Wind of the City (YR)

A Window of Memories (IC) With Hasan in Gaza (IC) (PL) Wrestling (La lutte) (DC) The Writers of Dewa (UCC) Writing Hawa (NAC)

Y, Z

Yanki No! (DC) The Yoshida-ryo Dormitory (YIDFF Version) (JP) You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer (NAC) You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You (SI) (DC) The Young Fighter (The Young Fighter: A Reality Film) (DC)