"Cinema with Us 2017" Extended Screening: 'Great East Japan Earthquake and the Future of "Community Cinema"' [March 24, 2018]
03/14/2018
"Cinema with Us 2017" Extended Screening: 'Great East Japan Earthquake and the Future of "Community Cinema" [Date]: March 24 [Sat] 14:00- [Venue]: Yamagata Documentary Film Library ...
Cinema with Us 2017 [YIDFF 2017: Oct 5-12]
12/11/2017
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2017 (Oct 5-12) has successfully ended. We would like to express our gratitude to everyone who participated in our festival. This year we had anoth ...
YIDFF Friday Theater: "Under the Wave, On the Ground" Screening (March 24)
03/21/2017
YIDFF Friday Theater: "Under the Wave, On the Ground" Screening YIDFF Yamagata Office presents 3.11 Special Screening of "Under the Wave, On the Ground" (Dir(s): Komori Haruka and Seo Nat ...
Newly Registered Films
02/09/2017
Three new films have been added to our catalog: 'What We Achieved and What We Didn't' (2011, Dir: Okazaki Takashi) 'Bosai Girls' (2015, Dir: Okazaki Takashi） 'The Future for Children in Fukushi ...
Report: "Filming 3.11: Accumulated Layers of Small Stories" (Nov 6, 2016)
11/18/2016
This year's screening and discussion hosted by YIDFF's 311 Documentary Film Archive welcomed a large turnout despite it being a five-hour long event on a chilly Sunday afternoon. The audience was co ...
Screening & Discussion Session "Filming 3.11: Accumulated Layers of Small Stories" (Yamagata, Nov 6)
10/20/2016
311 Documentary Film Archive Presents: Screening & Discussion Session - "Filming 3.11: Accumulated Layers of Small Stories" It’s been five years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and T ...
YIDFF Friday Theater: "311 Film Archive Selection: Hirata Junko works" (Aug 19)
07/27/2016
Hirata Junko, director of TV documentary production Telecom Staff, has frequently visited Tohoku region for some years since before the 3.11 disaster happened and made impressive documentaries about t ...
Newly Registered Films
07/27/2016
Six new films have been added to our catalog: 'Fukushima's Inexpressible Voices' (2014, Dir: Hirata Junko) 'Ogatsu – Revival of the Houin Kagura Tradition –' (2012, Dir: Tezuka Makoto） 'The ...
[Related Article]: "3/11 and Nippon Connection: A Look Back"
06/28/2016
Brief summary of the key 3.11 related films premiered at Nippon Connection (Frankfurt) since 2012 has been published at their Festival Blog: 3/11 and Nippon Connection: A Look Back ...
"The Light After the Tsunami" Screening at Nihonbashi Watasu (Tokyo)
06/14/2016
Mitsui Fudosan Co.,Ltd started a monthly screening session of 3.11 related documentaries, "The Watasu Theater", in April this year at cafe & restaurant "Watasu Nihonbashi" in Tokyo. "The Light ...
