A 10-film selection from one of Asia’s most respected documentary festivals, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, highlights key works from its three decades+ of existence. This exclusive focus features documentaries by #Ryusuke Hamaguchi#, #Naomi Kawase#, and #Ogawa Productions#, among many others. The ten films making up Made in Japan, Yamagata 1989 – 2021 trace a curious and inspiring pathway through the history of one of Asia’s most celebrated film festivals.

DAFilms, the VOD platform of the festival association #Doc Alliance#, starts 2022 by partnering with YIDFF on an online program, available free for one week then for subscribers for a further two weeks. Available for free worldwide excluding Japan — from January 17th to 24th, 2022

Made in Japan, Yamagata 1989 – 2021 films

• A Movie Capital // Toshio IIZUKA // 1991
• Living on the River Agano // Makoto SATO // 1992
• The Weald // Naomi KAWASE // 1997
• The New God // Yutaka TSUCHIYA // 1999
• A2 // Tatsuya MORI // 2001
• The Cheese and the Worms // Haruyo KATO // 2005
• Dear Pyongyang // Yonghee YANG // 2005
• Storytellers // Ko SAKAI, Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI // 2013
• Cenote // Kaori ODA // 2019
• Komian and Pickles // Koichi SATO // 2021