Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
The International Documentary Film Festival Yamagata ( Jap. 山形国際ドキュメンタリー映画祭, Yamagata kokusai dokyumentarī eigasai ; Engl. Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival ) has been held since 1989, and as a biennial in the Japanese city of Yamagata instead.
Alongside the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam , DOK Leipzig and Visions du Réel in Nyon , it is now one of the most famous film festivals for documentary films worldwide.
history
The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival was founded in 1989 by the film director Shinsuke Ogawa , who died in 1992 . From its inception, the festival has had an international full-length documentary competition with the jury-awarded Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize as the grand prize. The award is named after the documentary pioneers Robert J. Flaherty and his wife Frances H. Flaherty . Up until the fifth edition of the festival in 1997, important documentaries from Japanese film history were shown in a special section . The festival has published Documentary Box magazine since 1992 . Films from Asia have played an important role in programming since 1995, and there has been a separate competition for them under the title New Asian Currents . On the centenary of film in 1995, the festival focused on the Lumière brothers and their cameramen . In 1999 there was a focus on video activism in Japan and Korea . In the same year the festival dedicated a retrospective to Joris Ivens and in 2001 to Robert Kramer . In 2005, films about the Korean minority in Japan were given a separate program. In 2007 the festival created a focus on documentaries from Germany under the title Facing the Past . Today the Yamagata Documentary Film Festival will award various film prizes, including a Fipresci Prize from the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique .
Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize winner
| year | Movie title | Director | country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | The cross street | Ivars Selezkis | Soviet Union |
| 1991 | Stubborn Dreams | Béla Szobolits | Hungary |
| 1993 | Black Harvest | Robin Anderson , Bob Connolly | France / Papua New Guinea / United Kingdom / Australia |
| 1995 | Choice and fate | Tsipi Reibenbach | Israel |
| 1997 | Shivrei T'munot Yerushalayim | Ron Havilio | Israel |
| 1999 | Buenos Aires, my story | German kraal | Germany |
| 2001 | The Land of the Wandering Souls | Rithy Panh | France |
| 2003 | Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks - Part 1: Rust | Wang Bing | China |
| 2005 | Before the flood | Yifan Li , Yu Yan | China |
| 2007 | Fengming: A Chinese Memoir | Bing Wang | China |
| 2009 | Encirclement - Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy | Richard Brouillette | Canada |
| 2011 | The Collaborator and His Family | Ruthie Shatz , Adi Barash | United States / Israel / France |