[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"festival-selection-62659-2025-overview":3},{"festival":4,"years":21,"year":23,"programmes":25,"sections":26,"onlineFilmIds":32,"films":33,"news":42},{"entryId":5,"urlTitle":6,"status":7,"name":8,"originalName":9,"alsoKnownAs":10,"logo":12,"logoAppearance":13,"logoOg":19,"about":20,"isManaged":16},62659,"yamagata-international-documentary-film-festival","open","Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival","山形国際ドキュメンタリー映画祭",[11],"YIDFF","\u002Fimg\u002Ffestivals\u002F_th600\u002Foc3fcmz2.png",{"mode":14,"edge":15,"edgeLight":16,"plateLight":17,"plateDark":18,"crop":15,"og":15},"plate",null,false,"none","light","\u002Fimg\u002F_og\u002F71021.jpg?v=fbe76cf2","The Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF) is a biennial documentary festival held in odd-numbered years in Yamagata, among the mountains of northern Japan. Its first edition took place in October 1989 to mark the centenary of Yamagata City, and the organisers describe it as Asia’s first international documentary film festival. Documentary filmmaker Ogawa Shinsuke helped prepare the first edition and called on volunteers to organise it. Run by an executive committee with the city until 2006, YIDFF is now organised by an independent non-profit, a certified NPO since 2013. Two competitions form the core: the International Competition, about 15 documentaries from an open call, and New Asian Currents, for Asian documentaries of any format or length. Their top awards, the Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize and the Ogawa Shinsuke Prize, appear on the Academy’s qualifying festival list for Documentary Feature. Post-screening discussions are a festival tradition, and the View People View Cities programme shows films from the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, which Yamagata joined in 2017 as a City of Film. The 20th edition runs from 7–14 October 2027.",[22],{"year":23,"hasAwards":16,"hasSelection":24},"2025",true,[],[27],{"key":28,"title":29,"filmIds":30},"more","",[31],836,[],[34],{"entryId":31,"urlTitle":35,"status":7,"title":36,"synopsis":37,"duration":38,"hasFullFilm":16,"hasTrailer":24,"image":39,"directors":40,"series":15},"such-a-beautiful-town-marta-koch-poland-2019","Such A Beautiful Town","A young woman wakes up, looks out of the window and sees her boyfriend kissing another…",8,"\u002Fimg\u002Ffilms\u002F_th600\u002Fsuch-a-beautiful-town-marta-koch-poland-2019-tyobyxo7.webp",[41],"Marta Koch",[]]