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Documentary Film Festival Brings the World to Yamagata

  • Documentary Film Festival Brings the World to Yamagata
  • Yamanouchi interpreting at the YIDFF International Competition. (Photograph courtesy YIDFF.)

    Yamanouchi interpreting at the YIDFF International Competition. (Photograph courtesy YIDFF.)

  • On November 18, 2013, Yamanouchi and Hara Kazuo, director of The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On, discussed documentary films and the YIDFF at a follow-up event at Uplink in Shibuya, Tokyo.

    On November 18, 2013, Yamanouchi and Hara Kazuo, director of The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On, discussed documentary films and the YIDFF at a follow-up event at Uplink in Shibuya, Tokyo.

  • Anwar Congo (background), a death squad leader who admits to having killed 1,000 people, reenacts the scene of an actual massacre. The Act of Killing opened in Japan in April 2014. © Final Cut for Real Aps, Piraya Film AS, and Novaya Zemlya Ltd., 2012.

    Anwar Congo (background), a death squad leader who admits to having killed 1,000 people, reenacts the scene of an actual massacre. The Act of Killing opened in Japan in April 2014. © Final Cut for Real Aps, Piraya Film AS, and Novaya Zemlya Ltd., 2012.

  • Traditional restaurant Kōmian is the gathering place for guests, filmmakers, and locals from 10:00 in the evening until the early morning hours each day during the festival. (Photographs courtesy YIDFF.)

    Traditional restaurant Kōmian is the gathering place for guests, filmmakers, and locals from 10:00 in the evening until the early morning hours each day during the festival. (Photographs courtesy YIDFF.)

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