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YIDFF 2013 Interviews

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International Competition

• Adachi Masao, juror of the International Competition
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• Joshua Oppenheimer, director of The Act of Killing
• Eva Vila, director of Bajarí: Gypsy Barcelona
• Nontawat Numbenchapol, director of Boundary
• Sourav Sarangi, director of Char . . . The No-man’s Island
• Lo Shin-chieh, Wang Hsiu-ling, directors of A Gift from the Sky—The Tragedy of Hsiaolin Village, Part 2
• Vitaly Mansky, director of Motherland or Death
• Ignacio Agüero, director of The Other Day
• Diego Gutiérrez, director of Parts of a Family
• J-P Passi, director of The Punk Syndrome
• Philip Scheffner, director of Revision
• Kim Dong-ryung, Park Kyoung-tae, directors of Tour of Duty
• Sakai Ko, Hamaguchi Ryusuke, directors of Voices from the Waves
• Mahdi Fleifel, director of A World Not Ours

New Asian Currents

• Takashi Toshiko, juror of the New Asian Currents
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• Kamar Ahmad Simon, director of Are You Listening!
• Ella Pugliese, director of We Want (U) to Know
• Li Xiaofeng, director of Gold Underground
• Wang Erzhuo, director of South of the Clouds
• Zhao Gang, director of To Sing To Live
• Chan Yin Kai, director of Raging Land 3: Three Valleys
• Sankhajit Biswas, director of In-Between Days
• Dwi Sujanti Nugraheni, director of Denok & Gareng
• Ota Shingo, director of The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed
• Mikami Chie, director of The Targeted Village
• Jung Ji-yoon, director of Iron Age
• Roh Eun-ji, Go U-jung, directors of Summer Days in Bloom
• Ahmad Natche, director of Two Meters of This Land
• Jet Leyco, director of Ex Press
• Adjani Arumpac, director of War Is a Tender Thing
• Jewel Maranan, director of Tondo, Beloved: To What Are the Poor Born?
• Lucy Davis, director of Jalan Jati—Teak Road
• Duong Mong Thu, director of Mrs. Bua’s Carpet
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• Gu Tao, director of The Last Moose of Aoluguya

Special Invitation Films

• Park Soo-nam, director of Nuchigafu—Life Is a Treasure

Perspectives Japan

• Kubota Chisaki, director of Love Letter to a Place Called Slaughterhouse
• Hanabusa Aya, director of Tale of a Butcher Shop
• Murakami Kenji, director of Sound Hunting
• Sakai Ko, Hamaguchi Ryusuke, directors of Storytellers
• Soda Kazuhiro, director of Theatre 1, Theatre 2

Memories of the Future: Chris Marker’s Travels and Trials

• Etienne Sandrin, curator, Pompidou Centre

Another Side of the “Arab Spring”

• Hinde Boujemaa, director of It Was Better Tomorrow

Cinema with Us 2013

• Fujii Hikaru, director of Asahiza
• Suzuo Keita, director of A View of the Coast
• Takeuchi Masatoshi, director of A Man Who Returned—The Distance to Happiness, from Tokyo to Fukushima
• Iwabuchi Hiroki, director of Chasing Santa Claus
• Takano Hiroyuki, director of Sewers Recovery of Sendai
• Shimamori Chikako, director of The Meaning of Life
• Ono Daisuke, director of TSUMUGU—Students of Yuriage Junior High School
• Agatsuma Kazuki, director of The People Living in Hadenya
• Morioka Norihito, director of Tough It Out: One Year After the 2011 Great Sanriku Tsunami
• Oka Tatsuya, director of My Neighbors in Haramachi, Minamisoma
• Toyoda Naomi, Noda Masaya, directors of The Will—If Only There Were No Nuclear Plants
• Miyamori Yosuke, director of Dance of Reincarnation; Performed by Kesennuma High School Students
• Ian Thomas Ash, director of A2-B-C

YIDFF Network Special Screenings

• Chitose Chihiro, director of China to Japan—Japanese Woman with Chinese Mother Tongue
• Iizuka Toshio, director of Challenge to Puccini—Takao Okamura: A Life Dedicated to Opera

Other

• Yamanouchi Etsuko, author of Films that Won’t Give Up: Life at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival