Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
The International Documentary Film Festival of Yamagata (Japanese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. ) Will be held in the Japanese city of Yamagata since 1989 and as a biennial.
In addition to the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, DOK Leipzig, Visions du Reel in Nyon today it is one of the most famous film festivals for documentary films worldwide.
History
The International Documentary Film Festival Yamagata was founded in 1989 by the late film director Shinsuke Ogawa 1992. From the beginning, the festival had an international competition for documentary feature-length films with the contracts awarded by a jury of Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize as the main prize. The award is named after the documentary pioneers Robert J. Flaherty and his wife Frances H. Flaherty. Until the fifth edition of the festival in 1997 each significant documentaries of Japanese film history were on display in a special section. Since 1992 the festival publishes the magazine Documentary Box. Films from Asia took since the beginning of an important position in the program design, since 1995 there has been for this its own competition called New Asian Currents. For the hundredth birthday of the film in 1995, the festival has a focus on teaching the Lumière brothers and their cameramen. 1999, there was a focus on the topic of video activism in Japan and Korea. In the same year the festival Joris Ivens and 2001 Robert Kramer devoted a retrospective. Films about the Korean minority in Japan in 2005 was a separate program track reserved. 2007 designed the Festival under the title Facing the Past a focus on documentaries from Germany. Today various film awards will be presented on the Yamagata Documentary Film Festival, including a FIPRESCI Prize of the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique.