Schedule

VENUE: Polepole Higashinakano
Sept. 16 – Sept. 29

9.16 Sat.
12:30 In the Shadow of the Palms - Iraq
14:25 Final Solution
17:20 Before the Flood
20:10 The People of Angkor

9.17 Sun.
12:30 Route 181 – Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel
17:45 The Pot + until when…
19:40 Garden

9.18 Mon. (Public holiday)
12:30 Hijiori Story + Snow Country + Kitano Kenpei (no English subtitles)
14:00 Song of Arirang: Voices from Okinawa (Director present, no English subtitles)
16:25 The Things That We Shouldn’t Do + Mad Minutes
18:15 Back to the Soil
20:05 Keep the Change + The Spirit of 8 (Director present)

9.19 Tues.
12:30 Hammer and Flame + Foreland
14:25 About a Farm + Moving Adult Cats
16:45 The Island at the End of the World
18:55 President Mir Qanbar
20:30 The Virgin of Palermo

9.20 Wed.
12:30 Yesterday Today Tomorrow
14:25 The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
16:35 Cinema Invisible – The Book
18:15 The Things That We Shouldn’t Do + Mad Minutes
20:10 Don’t Forget Me + The Sound of Footsteps on the Pavement

9.21 Thur.
12:30 Rehearsals
14:35 Justice
16:40 Final Solution
19:35 Back to the Soil

9.22 Fri.
12:30 Diminishing Memories + Fluiding Stage
14:05 The Virgin of Palermo
15:50 Homesick Eyes (No English subtitles )
17:40 The House Masters
19:35 Keep the Change + The Spirit of 8 (Director present)

9.23 Sat. (Public holiday)
12:30 The Island at the End of the World
14:40 Cinema Invisible – The Book
16:20 About a Farm + Moving Adult Cats
18:40 The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
20:50 Rehearsals

9.24 Sun.
12:30 Justice
14:35 Yesterday Today Tomorrow (Director present)
16:50 The Pot + until when…
18:45 A Taste of Plum

9.25 Mon.
12:30 Tie Xi Qu – West of Tracks Part I
17:05 Tie Xi Qu – West of Tracks Part II
20:35 Tie Xi Qu – West of Tracks Part III

9.26 Tues.
12:30 Yesterday Today Tomorrow
14:25 Radio Mihu
17:05 Grandma’s Hairpin
19:00 Three Fork Village (Guest present)

9.27 Wed.
12:30 Nihon News + Children of Korea + Children of Japan (No English subtitles)
14:35 Nihon News + Thinking about Ethnic Education+ Song of the Japan Sea (No English subtitles)
16:45 Don’t Forget Me + The Sound of Footsteps on the Pavement
18:10 The People of Angkor
20:05 Fluiding Stage + Diminishing Memories

9.28 Thur
12:30 Keep the Change + The Spirit of 8
14:25 President Mir Qanbar
16:00 Garden
17:50 The Pot + until when…
19:45 In the Shadow of the Palms – Iraq

9.29 Fri
12:30 Before the Flood
15:30 Hammer and Flame + Foreland
17:15 Route 181 – Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel


VENUE: Athenee Francais Cultural Center

Sept. 30 – Oct. 20

A Focus on Japanese Documentarists
(Director or guest present in most of the following programs.)

9.30 Sat. (No English subtitles)
13:00 For My Crushed Right Eye (Matsumoto Toshio) + Sashingwa (Takamine Go) + The Phases of Real (Kawaguchi Hajime)
15:20 Land of the Dawn (Tokieda Toshie)
18:00 Summer in Narita (Ogawa Shinsuke)

10.2 Mon. (No English subtitles)
14:30 Minamata Disease Part I (Tsuchimoto Noriaki)
16:40 Minamata Disease Part II
19:00 Minamata Disease Part III

10.3 Tues. (No English subtitles)
12:30 Heta Village (Ogawa Shinsuke)
15:30 A Dedicated Life (Hara Kazuo)
19:00 Mohitotsuno kyoiku (Kore-eda Hirokazu) + 1999 nen no yodakano hoshi (Mori Tatsuya)

10.4 Wed.
13:10 Ode to Mt.Hayachine (Haneda Sumiko, No English subtitles)
17:10 The Weald (Kawase Naomi, with English Subtitles)
19:00 G8 2 (Kari) (Oki Hiroyuki, No English subtitles)

10.5 Thur. (No English subtitles)
13:30 The Story of Koreans in Postwar Japan: Zainichi (Oh Deok-soo)
19:00 The New God (Tsuchiya Yutaka)

10.6 Fri. (No English subtitles)
12:40 The Funeral of Yama-sen in Kyoto (Pro Kino) + Kobayashi Issa (Kamei Fumio) + Children in the Classroom (Hani Susumu)
14:40 Harvesting Shadows of Grass (Suzuki Shirouyasu)
19:00 Night and Morning Inside Myself (Yanagisawa Hisao)

10.7 Sat. (No English subtitles)
13:00 Short film + Hokkaido, My Love (Kuroki Kazuo)
14:40 Uneasy Questions + Kumano kodo (Matsukawa Yasuo)
17:10 Out of Place / Memories of Edward Said (Sato Makoto)

10.10 Tues.
13:30 Route 181 – Fragments of a Journey in Palestine-Israel
19:00 Swiss – Japanese personal documentary program

10.11 Wed.
15:00 Innocent + Last House Standing
17:00 Try to Remember
19:00 White Tower

10.12 Thur.
14:20 Justice
16:30 About a Farm + Moving Adult Cats
19:00 Hammer and Flame + Foreland

10.13 Fri.
15:00 Cinema Invisible – The Book
16:50 Featuring Videoart Center Tokyo—Apology + Fort of the Fabrications + Worldly Desires
19:00 Featuring Videoart Center Tokyo—Early Symptoms in Kampala + Foolosophy (no English subtitiles) + Interpreting/Imagining 15 February 1942 – 15 August 1945 + This is what democracy looks like! (no English subtitles)

10.14 Sat.
14:30 Marguerite As She Was
16:00 Innocent + Last House Standing
18:00 Chen Lu + Blossoming in the Wind

10.16 Mon.
14:30 The Land of the Wandering Souls
16:40 S21, The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine
19:00 The People of Angkor

10.17 Tues.
15:50 The Virgin of Palermo
17:50 President Mir Qanbar
19:30 Don’t Forget Me + The Sound of Footsteps on the Pavement

10.18 Wed.
14:00 In the Shadow of the Palms – Iraq
16:00 Final Solution
19:00 The 3 Rooms of Melancholia

10.19 Thur.
14:40 Garden
16:40 Rehearsals
19:00 Try to Remember

10.20 Fri.
14:30 Chen Lu + Blossoming in the Wind
16:30 White Tower
18:30 Before the Flood

Presented by Cinamatrix
Co-presented by Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival Organizing Committee, Athenee Francais Cultural Center, The Film School of Tokyo, Polepole Higashinakano

With support from the Agency for Cultural Affairs (Bunkacho)