YIDFF 2001 Screening List
| International Competition | Jurors’ Films | Special Invitation Films |
| New Asian Currents | New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films |
| New Asian Currents Special | Japanese Panorama |
| Robert Kramer Retrospective | Kamei Fumio Retrospective |
| High School Student Workshop Film Screenings |
| YIDFF Network Special Screenings | Japanese Classic Films |
| New Asian Currents | New Asian Currents Special Invitation Films |
| New Asian Currents Special | Japanese Panorama |
| Robert Kramer Retrospective | Kamei Fumio Retrospective |
| High School Student Workshop Film Screenings |
| YIDFF Network Special Screenings | Japanese Classic Films |
*=Additional Screenings
| International Competition |
- Angelos’ Film [Forgács Péter / THE NETHERLANDS / 2000]
- A2 [Mori Tatsuya / JAPAN / 2001 / Special Prize, Citizens’ Prize]
- Buenaventura Durruti, Anarchist [Jean-Louis Comolli / SPAIN, FRANCE / 1999]
- Crazy [Heddy Honigmann / THE NETHERLANDS / 1999]
- Days in Those Mountains [Wang Haibing / CHINA / 2000]
- La Devinière [Benoit Dervaux / BELGIUM / 2000]
- Gaea Girls [Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams / UK / 2000]
- Grandma’s Hairpin [Hsiao Chu-chen / TAIWAN / 2000]
- In Vanda’s Room [Pedro Costa / PORTUGAL, GERMANY, SWITZERLAND / 2000 / The Mayor’s prize, FIPRESCI Prize]
- The Land of the Wandering Souls [Rithy Panh / FRANCE / 2000 / The Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize]
- Mysterious Object at Noon [Apichatpong Weerasethakul / THAILAND / 2000 / Runner-Up Prize, NETPAC Special Mention]
- Paragraph 175 [Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman / USA / 1999]
- Private Chronicles. Monologue [Vitalij Manskij / RUSSIA / 1999]
- 6 Easy Pieces [Jon Jost / USA, ITALY, PORTUGAL / 2000 / Runner-Up Prize]
- Southern Comfort [Kate Davis / USA / 2000]
| Jurors’ Films |
- B-52 [Hartmut Bitomsky / GERMANY, USA / 2001]
- A Cuban Lover [Kuroki Kazuo / JAPAN, CUBA / 1969]
- Hanako [Sato Makoto / JAPAN / 2001]
- New Times at Crossroad Street [Ivars Seleckis / LATVIA / 1999]
- Ordinary Heroes [Ann Hui / HONG KONG / 1999]
- SELF AND OTHERS [Sato Makoto / JAPAN / 2000]
| Special Invitation Films |
- Ako—White Morning [Teshigahara Hiroshi / JAPAN / 1965]
- Devotion [Barbara Hammer / USA, JAPAN / 2000]
- Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers [Jia Zhangke, John Akomfrah, Tsai Ming-liang / CHINA, UK, TAIWAN / 2001]
- Domestic Violence [Frederick Wiseman / USA / 2001]
- Festival Trailer Compilation Film [CROATIA / 2000]
- Jose Torres Part II [Teshigahara Hiroshi / JAPAN / 1965]
- The Long Holiday [Johan van der Keuken / THE NETHERLANDS / 2000]
- Magino Story—Raising Silkworms [Ogawa Shinsuke / JAPAN / 1977]
- Manzan Benigaki [Ogawa Shinsuke, Peng Xiaolian / JAPAN / 2001]
- Masters and the Slaves [Nelson Pereira dos Santos / BRAZIL / 2001]
- Sculptures by Sofu—Vita [Teshigahara Hiroshi / JAPAN / 1962]
- Sea of Youth [Ogawa Shinsuke / JAPAN / 1966]
- Summer in Narita [Ogawa Shinsuke / JAPAN / 1968]
- Tokyo 1958 [Teshigahara Hiroshi, others / JAPAN / 1958]
| New Asian Currents |
- Along the Railway [Du Haibin / CHINA / 2000 / Special Mention]
- Blessed [Takashi Toshiko / JAPAN / 2001]
- Chichi, the Monster [Lin Tay-jou / TAIWAN / 2000]
- Chlorine Addiction [Tan Kai Syng / SINGAPORE / 2000]
- Danchizake (Homemade Sake) [Ono Satoshi / JAPAN / 2001]
- Doomealee, the Very First Step [Hong Hyung-sook / KOREA / 2000]
- The Falling Kite [Hsiao Mei-ling / FRANCE, TAIWAN / 1999]
- Farewell [Hwang Yun / KOREA / 2001 / Award of Excellence]
- Hummadruz [Hasan Karacadag / TURKEY / 2000]
- Jari Mari: Of Cloth and Other Stories [Surabhi Sharma / INDIA / 2001]
- King of Dreams [Amar Kanwar / INDIA / 2001]
- Koryu: Southern Women, South Korea [soha / KOREA / 2001]
- March of Time [Uruphong Raksasad / THAILAND / 2000]
- Margin [Paolo Villaluna / PHILIPPINES / 2001]
- MAYA [Sekine Hiroyuki / JAPAN / 2001]
- Mixed Fruit Banana Split [Catherine Wu / TAIWAN / 2000]
- More than One Is Unhappy [Wang Fen / CHINA / 2000 / Award of Excellence]
- My Friend Su [Neeraj Bhasin / INDIA / 2001 / FIPRESCI Prize]
- My Migrant Soul [Yasmine Kabir / BANGLADESH / 2000 / NETPAC Award]
- My Mother’s Home, Lagoon [Mehrdad Oskouei / IRAN / 1999]
- News Time [Azza El-Hassan / PALESTINE / 2001]
- Once Upon a Time [Panu Aree / THAILAND / 2000]
- Our Boys [Manzare Hassin / BANGLADESH / 2000]
- Pansy and Ivy [Kye Un-kyoung / KOREA / 2000 / NETPAC Special Mention]
- The Performance [Rahul Roy / INDIA / 2001]
- Sales [Tseng Chi-hsien / TAIWAN / 2000]
- Sky-blue Hometown [Kim So-young / KOREA / 2001 / Special Mention]
- Soshin: In Your Dreams [Melissa Kyu-jung Lee / AUSTRALIA / 1999 / Ogawa Shinsuke Prize]
- Sowing Seeds [Avic Ilagan / PHILIPPINES / 2000]
- This Winter [Zhong Hua / CHINA / 2001]
- A True Story about Love [Melissa Kyu-jung Lee / AUSTRALIA / 2001 / Ogawa Shinsuke Prize]
- Vanished with Water [Dogan Ümit Karaca, Namik Ugur, Özgür E. Arik, Özgür Polat, Onur Erdem, Özgür Cam / TURKEY / 2000]
- Variant Phases [Kawaguchi Hajime / JAPAN / 2001]
- Water and Atefeh [Nahid Rezaii / IRAN / 2001]
| New Asian Currents Invitation Films |
- The Eclipse [Ebrahim Saeedi, Mehrdad Oskouei / IRAN / 2000]
- Life beyond the Noise [Abolfazl Sorushmehr / IRAN / 2000]
- The Musicians [Don Askarian / ARMENIA, GERMANY, THE NETHERLANDS / 2000]
- The Paradise Island Tong-sha, An Isle like a Crab [MJ Lee / TAIWAN / 2000]
- Silent Delta [Shen Ko-shang / TAIWAN / 2000]
- West Island [Chu Hsien-jer / TAIWAN / 2000]
- Who Is Fishing® [Singing Chen / TAIWAN / 2000]
- 03:04 [Hwang Tin-fu / TAIWAN / 2000]
| New Asian Currents Special |
- Ai (LOVE) [Iimura Takahiko / JAPAN / 1963]
- Atman [Matsumoto Toshio / JAPAN / 1975]
- Le Cinéma [Okuyama Junichi / JAPAN / 1975]
- Gestalt [Ishida Takashi / JAPAN / 1999]
- The Mercury [Nagaya Miho / JAPAN / 1995]
- Metamorphose Vol. 3 (Mix Juice) [Kurosaka Keita / JAPAN / 1985]
- The Rainbow of Odds [Sueoka Ichiro / JAPAN / 1998]
- Rocking Chair [Kano Shiho / JAPAN / 2000]
- The Stone Steps with a Blue Handrail [Nishimura Tomohiro / JAPAN / 1990]
- Tokyo Honeymoon [Aoi Katsumi / JAPAN / 1985]
| Japanese Panorama |
- Dialogue 1999 [Inoue Akiko / 2000]
- An Error with Wings [Aramaki Ryoko / 1999]
- My Wife’s Features [Kawamoto Akito / 2001]
- Nippon Suicide Pact [Oura Nobuyuki / 2000]
- A Patch of Blue Sky [Kobayashi Shigeru / 2001]
- Takashi and His Friends [Kihara Daigo / 1999]
- Tei-chan’s Roots [Tanaka Miwa / 2001]
- Then, She Closes Another Eye [Negoro Yu / 2001]
- 35.4 °C [Tanaka Miwa / 2001]
| “Now,” “Here,” and “About the World,”—Robert Kramer |
- Against Forgetting [FRANCE / 1991]
- As Fast as You Can [FRANCE / 1982]
- Berlin 10/90 [FRANCE / 1991]
- Cities of the Plain [FRANCE / 1999-2000]
- City Empires [1998] *
- The Coat [FRANCE / 1996]
- Dear Doc [FRANCE / 1990]
- The Edge [USA / 1967]
- FALN [USA, VENEZUELA / 1965]
- Ghosts of Electricity [SWITZERLAND / 1997]
- A Great Day in France / Birth [FRANCE / 1981]
- Ice [USA / 1969]
- In the Country [USA / 1966]
- Leeward [FRANCE / 1991]
- Milestones [USA / 1975]
- People’s War [USA / 1969]
- Plan: Lumiere [1995] *
- Point de départ / Starting Place [FRANCE, VIETNAM, UK / 1993]
- Route One / USA [FRANCE / 1989]
- SayKomSa [FRANCE / 1998]
- Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal [USA, PORTUGAL / 1977]
- Video Letters: Robert Kramer and Stephen Dwoskin [France, UK / 1991]
- Walk the Walk [FRANCE, SWITZERLAND / 1995]
| Kamei Fumio Retrospective |
- Airspace [1945]
- All Living Things Are Friends—Lullabies of Birds, Insects and Fish [1987]
- All Must Live: People, Insects and Birds [1984]
- Become a Mother, Become a Woman [1952]
- Children of the Base [1953]
- Fighting Soldiers [1939]
- Fluttering Pigeons [1958]
- The Geology of Fuji (existing portion only) [1941]
- Hiking Song [1935]
- Hong Kong, Taipei [1964]
- Human Conceit: The World of Director Kamei Fumio [1991]
- An Introduction to Radio: The Audience [1937]
- Invitaton to Japanese Architecture [1959]
- A Japanese Tragedy [1946]
- Kamei on Kamei [1982]
- Kobayashi Issa [1941]
- Let’s Weave a Rainbow [1963]
- Living in a Rough Sea [1958]
- Living with Ideas: A Profile of Sharp [1962]
- Men Are All Brothers [1960]
- The Models and the Photographer [1958]
- Norihei Travel Manners [1966]
- Peking [1938]
- Penmanship [1960]
- The People of Sunagawa [1955]
- Poem of Life [1959]
- Quiet Construction Methods [1962]
- Record of Blood: Sunagawa [1956]
- School Broadcasting [1937]
- Shanghai [1938]
- Shape without Shape [1935]
- The Southern Cross Is Calling [1967]
- Still It’s Good to Live [1956]
- Towards a World without Arms [1961]
- Underwear Makes the Woman [1958]
- Voice of Hiroshima [1959]
- War and Peace [1947]
- Wheat Will Never Fall [1955]
- Wishing for Tomorrow’s Happiness [1981]
- Woman Walking Alone on the Earth [1953]
- A Woman’s Life [1949]
- The World Is Terrified: The Reality of the “Ash of Death” [1957]
| High School Student Workshop Film Screenings |
- Festival [JAPAN / 2001]
- The Four Emotions [JAPAN / 2001]
- Gas Stalker [JAPAN / 2001]
- Inorganic Maze [JAPAN / 2001]
- Water Sprite [JAPAN / 2001]
| YIDFF Network Special Screenings |
- Good Friends, Good People [Masa / USA, JAPAN / 2001]
- The Lost Honor of Mountain [Lin Wan-yu / TAIWAN / 2000]
- Mardiyem [Kana Tomoko / JAPAN / 2001]
- Smiles of 108 People [Prod: Yuza Machi Video Production Committee / JAPAN / 2000]
| Japanese Classic Films |
- Hatamoto Taikutsu Otoko [Matsuda Sadatsugu / 1958]
- O-edo Gonin Otoko [Ito Daisuke / 1951]
- Zenigata Heiji: Hitohadagumo [Mori Kazuo / 1956]