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YIDFF 2011 Interviews

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International Competition

• Atom Egoyan, juror of the International Competition
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• He Yuan, director of Apuda
• Janus Metz, director of Armadillo
• Travis Wilkerson, director of Distinguished Flying Cross
• Jon Jost, director of Images of a Lost City
• Hirano Katsuyuki, director of Kantoku Shikkaku
• Iman Kamel, director of Nomad’s Home
• John Gianvito, director of Vapor Trail (Clark)
• Emmanuelle Demoris, director of What Is to Be Done?
• Vadim Jendreyko, director of The Woman with the 5 Elephants

New Asian Currents

• Zeze Takahisa, juror of New Asian Currents
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• Selim Mourad, director of A Trip to the Barbershop
• Vladimir Todorovic, director of Water Hands
• Jakrawal Nilthamrong, director of Unreal Forest
• Basma Alsharif, director of we began by measuring distance
• Reza Haeri, director of All Restrictions End
• Shahin Parhami, director of Amin
• Mehran Tamadon, director of Bassidji
• Mohammad Shirvani, director of Iranian Cookbook
• Sameera Jain, director of My Own City
• Chulayarnnon Siriphol, director of A Brief History of Memory
• Khoo Eng Yow, director of World without Shadow
• Gu Tao, director of On the Way to the Sea
• Tran Thanh Hien, director of Hard Rails across a Gentle River (Q&A after the Screening)
• Meng Xiaowei, director of Thatched Cottages on the Enclave
• Nova Goh, director of The Red Rain on the Equator
• Daniel Rudi Haryanto, director of Prison and Paradise
• Zhang Mengqi, director of Self-Portrait with Three Women
• Gu Tao, director of Yuguo and His Mother
• Mun Jeong-hyun, director of Yongsan
• Lee Ju-hyoung, director of We’ve never seen a night which has finished by reaching a day
• Okuma Katsuya, director of Gift | Okutani Yoichiro, director of Children of Soleil
• Maeda Shinjiro, Suzuki Hikaru, directors of The Shepherd’s Story / Shinjuku 2009 + Ogaki 2010

New Docs Japan

• Akazaki Masakazu, director of Chizuru
• Kim Imman, director of Give Back Kama’s Rights! 2011
• Hayakawa Yumiko, director of Goodbye UR—Japanese Social Housing Crisis
• Tachikawa Kazuya, director of Never Let Me Go
• Omiya Koichi, director of September 11
• Ebata Koki, director of Transgender Trouble
• Doi Toshikuni, director of True to Myself
• Shimonobo Shuko, director of Yes, I Am Here
• Maeda Shinjiro, Suzuki Hikaru, directors of BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Omnibus Vol. 1 “APRIL 2011,” Omnibus Vol. 2 “MAY 2011”
• Onishi Kenji, Mabuchi Toru, directors of Associations of Silverpencils

Special Invitation Films

• Daishima Haruhiko, director of Regarding the Lives of Others

Islands / I Lands, NOW—Vista de Cuba

• Tanuma Sachiko, director of Cuba Sentimental

My Television

• Ichioka Yasuko, director of Tachi’s Family, Ama —Japan’s Women of the Sea—
• Hatakeyama Yohei, director of Ushiyama Junichi: Our Wonderful Television
• Awamura Koji, editor of Kimura Hidefumi films

A Reunion of Taiwan and Japanese Filmmakers: 12 Years Later

• Lo Shin-chieh, Wang Hsiu-ling, directors of A Gift for Father’s Day—The Tragedy of Hsiaolin Village (Q&A after the Screening)
• Wu Yao-tung, director of The Stages
• Yang Li-zhou, director of Young at Heart: Grandma Cheerleaders
• Kobayashi Shigeru, director of Chokora!
• Matsue Tetsuaki, director of Live Tape
• Tsuchiya Yutaka, director of Prisoners
• Terashima Mari, director of Dark Märchen Show!!

Great East Japan Earthquake Recovery Support Screening Project “Cinema with Us”

• Wu Yii-feng, director of Gift of Life
• Okazaki Takashi, director of What We Achieved and What We Didn’t
• Oka Tatsuya, director of Never Give Up Concert

Films about Yamagata

• Yokoyama Rie, appearing in Diary of a Shinjuku Thief, Ecstasy of the Angels
• Iizuka Kasho, director of Our Future

YIDFF Network Special Screenings

• Watanabe Satoshi, director of Reviving Recipes

Art Documentary Program

• Oki Masaharu, director of Roundabout, Colors of Soundsteps