July 23, 2012
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++ Announcing Documentary Dream Show / Yamagata in Tokyo 2012 ++
The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival is the largest and most prestigious international film festival for documentary in Asia, and runs every other year in the northern Japanese city of Yamagata. In the off-years, the festival brings a part of the previous year’s screening program to Tokyo. Close to 100 films will be screened during a festival period of Aug. 18 – Sept. 21 this summer at two Tokyo art house cinemas: Auditorium Shibuya and Pole Pole Higashi-nakano.
Most films will be screened with English subtitles, including many from Asia and Japan.
Director Ruthie Shatz of the 2011 grand prize winner The Collaborator and His Family will be coming to Japan from Israel to present her film and to meet audiences, thanks to funding from the Embassy of Israel.
Daniel Rudi Haryanto, director of Prison and Paradise from Indonesia will be coming to Japan to attend his screening on Sept. 9. The Directors Guild of Japan Award winner will participate in other exchange programs as well, with the support of the Japan Foundation.
Outstanding works from the International Competition, New Asian Currents, and special programs (like our Islands series focusing on Cuba this time) will travel to Tokyo for the first time. Not to be missed!
[Dates & Venues]
August 18 [Sat] – 31 [Fri]
at Auditorium Shibuya
2F Kinohaus, 1-5 Maruyamacho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
http://a-shibuya.jp/
Phone 03-6809-0538
September 1 [Sat] – 21 [Fri]
at Pole Pole Higashi-nakano
4-4-1 Higashinakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo
http://www.mmjp.or.jp/pole2/
Phone 03-3371-0088
[From the YIDFF 2011 program]
_International Competition_
The diversity of the world is represented in this lineup of competition films chosen out of 1,078 entries from 101 countries and areas.
Some titles: Grand Prize winner The Collaborator and His Family tells the chilling story of Ibrahim El-Akel, once a Palestinian collaborator with the Israeli security services who is forced to flee from his community with his family. Apuda is Chinese filmmaker He Yuan’s mesmerizingly beautiful visual poem about Apuda and his ailing father, orchard farmers from the Naxi tribe in Yunnan. Travis Wilkerson’s Distinguished Flying Cross is loaded with satire and humor, intercutting a former veteran’s story telling of the Vietnam War with archival footage shot by soldiers.
_New Asian Currents_
This popular program discovers and supports emerging Asian filmmakers and their works, which are diamonds in the rough. Asia continues to bravely engage with new forms of expression.
Winner of the Ogawa Shinsuke Prize 2011 for most promising Asian filmmaker was Gu Tao and his Yuguo and His Mother from China, a moving account of a troubled mother who is reunited with her son in the forests of northeast Inner Mongolia. Prison and Paradise shares in the lives of the families of both the victims and perpetrators of the 2002 Bali bombings, which were attacks by Islamic fundamentalists.
_New Docs Japan_
This program presents new documentaries from Japan with a special focus on independent films dealing with social commitment and activism.
Give Back Kama’s Rights! 2011 is a passionate activist film in support of Osaka day laborers and the homeless, filmed by a hand-held personalized camera. Goodbye UR – Japanese Social Housing Crisis by Hayakawa Yumiko won the Sky Perfect IDEHA Prize for “For the engagement of her work, the ethics of her filmmaking, and the capacity of the film to make audiences react.” It is a one-woman investigation of a heartless evacuation order by social housing authorities – with a sense of humor. Two omnibus films in the lineup, BETWEEN YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW (an experimental collection of improvised diary-like images) and Association of Silverpencils (13 filmmakers’ works on super-8 film, a dying medium), are forms of artistic expression which question conventional views and forms through the personal and everyday.
_Islands/ I Lands, Now – Vista de Cuba_
This program focuses on Cuba, a strong influence on cinema in Latin America overall, and examines its film culture through the idea of an ‘island.’ DDS2012 expands the program from 2011 by adding rare-to-be-seen films by the country’s great pioneer, Fernando Pérez.
_A Reunion of Taiwan and Japanese Filmmakers: 12 Years Later_
Young documentarians from Japan and Taiwan who came together at New Asian Currents in 1999 returned to their ‘hometown’ of Yamagata in 2011. Some films of the program will be shown in Tokyo too.
[Programs Original to DDS2012]
_ Documentary Dream Show 2012 / By Popular Vote! _
The following films won in a popular vote held in May, chosen from among the hundreds of titles in the Yamagata Documentary Film Library, which has archived films since the festival’s first edition in 1989. They will be screened in the DDS 2012 program.
1st place:
_Route One_ (Dir: Robert Kramer / FRANCE / 1989 / YIDFF ’89 The Mayor’s Prize)
2nd place:
_Mysterious Object at Noon_ (Dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul / THAILAND / 2000 / YIDFF 2001 Runner-Up Prize, NETPAC Special Mention)
3rd place (2 films):
_Africas: How Are You Doing with the Pain?_ (Dir: Raymond Depardon / FRANCE / 1996 / YIDFF ’97 The Mayor’s Prize)
_How to Behave_ (Dir: Tran Van Thuy / VIETNAM / 1985)
_The Legendary Filmmaking Collective NDU (Japan Documentarist Union) and Nunokawa Tetsuro_
NDU first came into form during the 1970′s students’ activist movement, and later went on to continue filming people who drift from Okinawa to Asia. In memory of the collective and Nunokawa Tetsuro (1942 – 2012), one of its most important members, this retrospective will investigate the entirety of NDU’s filmography. Most films will not have English subtitles.
>> What was NDU? >>
NDU was formed in 1968 by former students who had led the ‘Waseda University 150-Day Strike’. Of the same generation as Ogawa Productions and Tsuchimoto Noriaki, NDU filmed the student movement at its peak and continued to commit to locations of struggle. NDU filmmakers captured Shinjuku’s student movement and Vietnam War protests, then moved on to Okinawa, Taiwan, Korea, and continued to film migrant workers crossing borders. Their unique perspective on “Asian-ness” cut through and opened up new horizons.
_Special Event: “Iikka-san Is Coming!”_
This program welcomes renowned Finnish documentary producer and YLE commissioning editor Iikka Vehkalahti to Japan. Adding to screenings of three films that he produced, we have prepared a full week’s program full of lectures and workshops for young local filmmakers with him.
[Presented by] Cinematrix
[Co-presented by] Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (NPO), Auditorium Shibuya, Pole Pole Higashi-nakano
[Special support from] Embassy of Israel in Japan, neoneo, The Finnish Institute in Japan, The Film School of Tokyo, Finnair, Independent Cinema Guild
[Supported by] Japan Arts Council
Contact: Cinematrix
Phone 03-5362-0671 Fax 03-5362-0670
Email mail@cinematrix.jp
For details on the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, go to
www.yidff.jp in Japanese and English.
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++ Schedule for Documentary Dream Show / Yamagata in Tokyo 2012 ++
Close to 100 documentaries will be screened in Tokyo, Aug. 18 – Sept. 21 at two Tokyo art house cinemas: Auditorium Shibuya and Pole Pole Higashi-nakano.
Most films will be screened with English subtitles, including many from Asia and Japan.
Tickets:
Single tickets 1,400 yen at door
Triple tickets 3,600 yen (can be used by more than one person) at door & playguides
Passport 15,000 yen (valid for all films plus a YIDFF T-shirt gift) at cinemas
Repeater discount (bring a DDS 2012 ticket butt and see your next film for 1,300 yen!)
Dates & Venues
August 18 [Sat] – 31 [Fri]
at Auditorium Shibuya
2F Kinohaus, 1-5 Maruyamacho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
http://a-shibuya.jp/
Phone 03-6809-0538
CLICK ON TITLES FOR DETAILS
8/17 (Fri) 21:00- w/talk
Garden
8/18 (Sat) 13:00-
Position among the Stars
15:10-
What Is to be Done?
18:10- w/talk
The Collaborator and His Family
21:15-
Mysterious Object at Noon
8/19 (Sun)
13:00-
Apuda
16:00-
On the Way to the Sea / Yuguo and His Mother
17:30-
Amin
19:50-
8/20 (Mon)
13:00-
All Restrictions End / We’ve never seen a night which has finished by reaching a day
15:00-
Brief History of Memory / Unreal Forest
17:00-
Promised Paradise
19:00-
Prison and Paradise
21:15-
King of Dreams / The Scene of Crime
8/21 (Tue)
13:00-
Yongsan
15:00-
Route One / USA
20:00- w/talk
The Collaborator and His Family
8/22 (Wed)
13:00-
One Way or Another
CUBA / 1974 / Spanish / B&W / DVCAM / 82 min
Director: Sara Gómez
The last film by Gómez combines documentary elements with fiction in a radical fashion, demonstrating, through the story of a teacher who fully identifies with the revolution and a macho worker who is forced to confront the woman’s desire for emancipation, the idea that racism, sexism, and class prejudice must be defeated if the revolution is succeed. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea helped complete the film.
15:00- (no E)
Clandestinos
Director: Fernando Pérez
17:00- (no E)
Africas: How Are You Doing With the Pain?
21:15- (no E)
How To Behave / Made in Hong Kong
8/23 (Thu)
13:00- (no E) w/talk
Cuba Sentimental
Director: Tanuma Sachiko
15:00- (no E)
Nobody Listened [Nestor Almendros, Jorge Ulla / USA / 1988 / Runner-Up Prize]
17:00-
The Embrace of the River
19:00-
Neoneo presents special program
8/24 (Fri)
13:00-
A Trip to the Barbershop / Hard Rails across a Gentle River
15:00-
Nomad’s Home
17:00-
Water Hands
19:00- (no E)
Nenette
21:00-
Transgender Trouble
8/25 (Sat) 13:00-
Vapor Trail (Clark)
19:00- (no E)
For the First Time / El Megano / Omara
21:15-
Kantoku Shikkaku (Director Disqualified)
8/26 (Sun)
13:00-
Images of a Lost City
15:00- w/talk
Goodbye UR — Japanese Social Housing Crisis
17:00- w/talk
Thatched Cottages on the Enclave / Gift
19:30- (no E)
Hello Hemingway
21:15- (no E)
Clandestinos
8/27 (Mon)
13:00-
Documentary Zuno Keisatsu
19:00- w/talk
Accelerated Development
21:15-
Distinguished Flying Cross
8/28 (Tue)
13:00- w/talk
Yes, I Am Here
15:00- w/talk
We began by measuring distance / The Shepherd’s Story – Shinjuku 2009 + Ogaki 2010
17:00-
The Collaborator and His Family
19:00- (no E)
Havana Suite
21:00- w/talk
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
8/29 (Wed)
13:00-
The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger
15:00-
Self-Portrait with Three Women
17:00-
World without Shadow
19:00-
One Way or Another
8/30 (Thu)
13:00-
The Red Rain on the Equator
15:00-
Aoluguya, Aoluguya…
17:00-
On the Way to the Sea / Yuguo and His Mother
19:00-
Yongsan
21:15-
My Camera and Tsunami
Director: R. V. Ramani
India / 2011/ English, Tamil, Bengali / 90 min
The film shares special moments that the filmmaker experienced with his camera, a special bonding over a period of 4 years, in terms of creating cinematic imagery, relating, exploring, seeking and interpreting notions of his reality. It’s a memory of a camera which perished in the Tsunami, along with its last filmed footage. It’s last recorded footage, an elusive image, evoking multiple possibilities, seeking parallels and new perspectives.
8/31 (Fri)
13:00- (no E)
Africas: How Are You Doing with the Pain?
16:15-
Fengming: A Chinese Memoir
19:45-
My Own City
21:15- w/talk
Give Back Kama’s Rights! 2011
September 1 [Sat] – 21 [Fri]
at Pole Pole Higashi-nakano
4-4-1 Higashinakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo
http://www.mmjp.or.jp/pole2/
Phone 03-3371-0088
CLICK ON TITLES FOR DETAILS
9/1 (Sat) 12:30-
The Embrace of the River
14:30-
Nomad’s Home
16:30-
Water Hands
19:00-
The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger
21:00-
Amin
9/2 (Sun)
12:30-
Yes, I Am Here
14:30-
Young at Heart: Grandma Cheerleaders
16:45-
Yongsan
19:00-
The Red Rain on the Equator
21:30-
A Brief History of Memory / Unreal Forest
9/3 (Mon)
12:30-
Prison and Paradise
14:30-
Vapor Trail (Clark)
20:00-
A Trip to the Barbershop / Hard Rails across a Gentle River
21:30-
Distinguished Flying Cross
9/4 (Tue) 12:30-
On the Way to the Sea / Yuguo and His Mother
14:30-
Apuda
17:30-
What Is to Be Done?
20:30-
Day Is Done
9/5 (Wed)
12:30-
A Gift for Father’s Day – The Tragedy of Hsiaolin Village, Part I
14:30-
The Stages
16:30-
Images of a Lost City
19:00-w/talk(noE)
Nippon no Misemonoyasan
21:00- w/talk (no E)
Children of Soleil
9/6 (Thu)
12:30-
Distinguished Flying Cross
14:30-
Mysterious Object at Noon
16:30- w/talk (no E)
Shu Taguchi productions and Natco films
19:00-w/talk(noE)
Ushiyama Junichi: Our Wonderful Television
21:00- w/talk (no E)
Our Future
9/7 (Fri) 12:30-
The Collaborator and His Family
14:30-
Garden
16:30- w/talk
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow
19:00- w/talk
Prisoners
21:00- (no E) w/talk
Prisoner / Terrorist
9/8 (Sat)
12:30-
All Restrictions End / We’ve never seen a night which has finished by reaching a day
14:30- (no E)
How To Behave / Made in Hong Kong
16:30- w/talk
Roundabout, Colors of Soundsteps
19:00-
World without Shadow
21:00-
We began by measuring distance / The Shepherd’s Story Shinjuku 2009 + Ogaki 2010
9/9 (Sun)
12:30- w/talk
Prison and Paradise
15:00- w/talk
Transgender Trouble
16:30-
Aoluguya, Aoluguya…
19:00-
On the Way to the Sea / Yuguo and His Mother
21:15- w/talk
Associations of Silverpencils
9/10 (Mon)
12:30-
A Trip to the Barbershop / Hard Rails Across a Gentle River
14:30-
King of Dreams / The Scene of Crime
16:30-
Self-Portrait with Three Women
19:00-
Apuda
9/11 (Tue) 12:30-
Amin
15:00-
Water Hands
17:00-
My Own Town
19:00-
Revolution
20:40- w/talk
Bilal
9/12 (Wed)
12:30-
Position among the Stars
14:30-
The Collaborator and His Family
17:00-
Nobody Listened [Nestor Almendros, Jorge Ulla / USA / 1988 / Runner-Up Prize]
19:00-w/talk(noE)
Cuba Sentimental
21:00- w/talk
The Three Rooms of Melancholia
9/13 (Thu)
12:30-
One Way or Another
14:30- (no E)
For the First Time / El Megano / Omara
16:30- w/talk
Thatched Cottages on the Enclave / Gift
19:00- (no E)
Onikko
21:00- (no E)
Motoshinkakarannu
9/14 (Fri)
12:30- w/talk
Goodbye UR – Japanese Social Housing Crisis
14:30- w/talk
Give Back Kama’s Rights! 2011
17:00- (no E)
Nagai Tent Mura ni Dairin no butai ga tatta!
21:30- (no E)
Nippon Theater – Toward Film Inspired by the Sea
9/15 (Sat)
21:00- (no E)
Takkuruse / To the Japs: South Korean A-Bomb Survivors Speak Out
9/16 (Sun)
15:00 – 17:00 at Waseda University Okuma Tower Underground Lecture Room
(entrance free)
Magic Lantern (gento) Projections
21:00- (no E)
Asia Is One
9/17 (holiday)
21:00- (no E)
Taiheiyo Senso Soko / Beirut 1982
9/18 (Tue)
21:00- (no E)
Bastard on the Border
9/19 (Wed)
21:00- (no E)
Kazekkurai Toki Sakashima
9/20 (Thu)
21:00- (no E)
Paletine ’76 – 83
9/21 (Fri)
21:00- (no E)
Headhunter’s Song
[Presented by] Cinematrix
[Co-presented by] Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (NPO), Auditorium Shibuya, Pole Pole Higashi-nakano
[Special support from] Embassy of Israel in Japan, neoneo, The Finnish Institute in Japan, The Film School of Tokyo, Finnair, Independent Cinema Guild
[Supported by] Japan Arts Council
Contact: Cinematrix
Phone 03-5362-0671 Fax 03-5362-0670
Email mail@cinematrix.jp
For details on the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, go to
www.yidff.jp in Japanese and English.
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