>> Catalog 2025

Index by country

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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

AFGANISTAN Back to Ghawas (FL) Shot the Voice of Freedom (NAC) Writing Hawa (NAC) ARGENTINA Siesta (UCC) To Insist (UCC) AUSTRIA The Seasons (IC)

BELGIUM The Demands of Ordinary Devotion (UCC) Fertile Memory (PL) Hair, Paper, Water... (NAC) Rising Up at Night (IC) Welded Together (IC) You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer (NAC) BRAZIL A Fidai Film (PL) BURKINA FASO Rising Up at Night (IC)

C, D

CANADA The Days Before Christmas (DC) Emergency Ward (DC) Film, the Living Record of Our Memory (Conference) Les raquetteurs (DC) A Stone’s Throw (NAC) Wrestling (La lutte) (DC)

CHILE Letters to My Dead Parents (IC) Malqueridas (IC) CHINA Luo Luo’s Future (NAC) CONGO (DRC) Rising Up at Night (IC) CZECH REPUBLIC Time to the Target (IC)

E, F

ESTONIA The Last Visit (NAC) FRANCE Another Home (IC) Direct Action (IC) A Fidai Film (PL) Good Valley Stories (SI) Hair, Paper, Water... (NAC) L’Homme-Vertige: Tales of a City (IC) Kings and Extras (JUROR) (PL) Looking for Robert (JUROR)

Madame soie Cévennes (YF) Once Upon a Time, TV (FL) Route One/USA (YC) The Seasons (IC) 3350 KM (NAC) To a Land Unknown (PL) TrepaNation (IC) Welded Together (IC) With Hasan in Gaza (IC) (PL) Writing Hawa (NAC)

G, H

GERMANY Direct Action (IC) Fertile Memory (PL) A Fidai Film (PL) Kings and Extras (JUROR) (PL) Malqueridas (IC) Rising Up at Night (IC) To a Land Unknown (PL) TrepaNation (IC) What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov? (NAC) With Hasan in Gaza (IC) (PL)

GREECE To a Land Unknown (PL) HONG KONG Another Home (IC) You Are the Truck and I Am the Deer (NAC)

I, J

INDIA Collective Dreams Stitched into December (NAC) CycleMahesh (NAC) INDONESIA SIE... (NAC) The Silent Path (NAC) Someone’s Wife in the Boat of Someone’s Husband (JUROR) IRAN Hakishka (NAC) ITALY Below the Clouds (IC) The Demands of Ordinary Devotion (UCC) JAPAN Appalachian Lenses (JP) At Shoin (YR) At the Triangle Intersection (CU) Dekunobo: War and PTSD (YF) Do We Go against the Times?: The Two “Nohs” of Kurokawa (YF) Don’t Shoot My Back—The Life of Actor Junkichi Orimoto (JP) 8mm Film by Masuya Jiro (YF) Feb 11, 1990 Rough Cut Screening: The Other Version (YF) 45 Years of Overtures: Challenges of the Yamagata Symphony Orchestra (YF) Hikari no Seiso: A Visual Collection from the Former Yoshiike Clinic with Original Theme Music (YF) 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 Their Traces (NET) Keep Your Left Hand Down (JUROR) Labyrinth of Dreams (JUROR) The Land of Regeneration (CU)

Madame soie Cévennes (YF) The Man Who Saw Yokai: The World of Ito Chuta, a Giant of Modern Architecture (YF) Memories That Sheep Carry: Genghis Khan in Zao Onsen (UCC) Mirror Works ’89: Yamagata Central Public Hall (YF) Modernization Heritage of Yamagata (YF) A Movie Capital (YF) My Blue Heaven (JP) Narita: Heta Village (SI) A Natural Look: 900 Days with a “Gal” in a Wheelchair (YF) “150 Years of Cherry Cultivation”: The Ruby-like Treasures that Connect with the Future (YF) Return: Yamagata × Hualien 1960s (YF) Reunion: 35 Years of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (UCC) Rokkoku Kitchen (CU) The Ruptured Railway: The Resolution Needed to Restore the Yonesaka Line (YF) The Shape of the Wind (JP) Sharing the Appeal of Zao Hot Springs (YF) 16mm Film by Sato Kyukichi (YF) Someone to Sing Over Me (JUROR) Song of the Craftsmen: Documenting the Restoration of the Former Yamagata Prefectural Office, an Important Cultural Property (YF) Spring, On the Shores of Aga (JP) Sunny Spot: Story of a Beloved Local Supermarket (UCC) The Three Shonais: The Land of Dreams for Outsiders (YF) The Voices of the Silenced (SI) Wind of the City (YR) A Window of Memories (IC) The Writers of Dewa (UCC) The Yoshida-ryo Dormitory (YIDFF Version) (JP)

K, L

KAZAKHSTAN Track_ing (NAC) KOREA Direct Action (IC) The Hydromantic (Working Title) (YR) Someone’s Wife in the Boat of Someone’s Husband (JUROR) Track_ing (NAC) The Voices of the Silenced (SI) When the Trees Sway, the Heart Stirs (NAC)

LATVIA Time to the Target (IC) LEBANON Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza (PL) A Stone’s Throw (NAC)

M, N

MYANMAR The City of Bougainvillea (JUROR) Dear Young Lady, a Sheet of Record (JUROR) NEPAL As Day Goes By (UCC)

THE NETHERLANDS Fertile Memory (PL) To a Land Unknown (PL) Welded Together (IC) Writing Hawa (NAC) NEW ZEALAND The House Within (UCC)

O, P

PALESTINE Dancing Palestine (NAC) Fertile Memory (PL) A Fidai Film (PL) Kings and Extras (JUROR) (PL) A Magical Substance Flows into Me (PL) A Stone’s Throw (NAC) To a Land Unknown (PL) With Hasan in Gaza (IC) (PL)

THE PHILIPPINES Why Is Yellow Middle of Rainbow? (SI) POLAND Stopover (UCC) Such a Beautiful Town (UCC) PORTUGAL The Seasons (IC)

Q, R

QATAR A Fidai Film (PL) Rising Up at Night (IC)

To a Land Unknown (PL) With Hasan in Gaza (IC) (PL) Writing Hawa (NAC)

S, T

SAUDI ARABIA To a Land Unknown (PL) SPAIN Film, the Living Record of Our Memory (Conference) Good Valley Stories (SI) The Seasons (IC) SWEDEN Time Has No Name (YC) SYRIA 3350 KM (NAC) TrepaNation (IC)

TAIWAN Another Home (IC) 8mm Film by Dr. Ting Ray-yü (YF) 8mm Film by Photographer Hsu Tsang-tse (YF) Park (IC) Return: Yamagata × Hualien 1960s (YF) Spi (NAC) The Tales of the Tale (NAC) THAILAND In That Dammmn Old Day (Working Title) (YR) The Last Visit (NAC) No Exorcism Film (NAC)

U, V

UK Dancing Palestine (NAC) Kings and Extras (JUROR) (PL) A Magical Substance Flows into Me (PL) To a Land Unknown (PL) UKRAINE Time to the Target (IC) USA Arrival of Sir William Slim, Rangoon (DC) Breaking it Up at the Museum (SI) (DC) The Chair (DC) Chiefs (DC) Cicero March (DC) Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment (DC) Cut Piece, 1964/1965 (SI) (DC) Dont Look Back (DC) Faces of November (DC) Forest of Bliss (DC) Generals Inspect British 36th Div Headquarters (DC) Gimme Shelter (DC)

Grey Gardens (DC) Happy Mother’s Day (DC) Harlan County, USA (DC) Home For Life (DC) The House at Pooneil Corners (excerpt from 1 P.M.) (SI) (DC) Japanese Surrender Preliminaries in China, Chihkiang (DC) Jazz Dance (DC) Just Doin’ It (A Tale of Two Barber Shops) (DC) Law and Order (DC) Meet Marlon Brando (DC) Monterey Pop (DC) On the Bowery (DC) Panola (SI) (DC) Primary (DC) Seventeen (DC) The War Room (DC) Yanki No! (DC) You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You (SI) (DC) The Young Fighter (The Young Fighter: A Reality Film) (DC)