Programs
Agency for Cultural Affairs Documentary Film Awards
Agency for Cultural Affairs Documentary Film Awards
The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan honors outstanding Japanese documentaries with awards each year. In collaboration with YIDFF for the first time, a program of awarded documentaries of fiscal years 2020 and 2021 will be presented online for free.
All films are scheduled to stream at a set date and time (times are Japan Standard Time - UTC +9 hours). Number of tickets is limited.
Registration for tickets starts Oct. 22, 2021 on this site.
With the Cooperation of: Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan; UNIJAPAN
Documentary Film Awards 2020
Nov. 7 (Sun)
Sceenings
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Documentary Film Award 2020
Planet of the Crabs
蟹の惑星
Director: Murakami Hiroyasu / Japan / 2019 / 68 min
Subtitles: None
Tickets are limited to 200, Online screening is for free , Available Worldwide.
Through the eyes of Yoshida Tadayoshi, who continues his own research on crabs in the Tama River estuary, this film looks at the amazing lives of crabs living in a corner of the city.
- Running time
- Nov 07 [Sun] 11:00 - 12:08
- End of Streaming Time
- Nov 07 [Sun] 13:08
*Please make sure to check your viewing environment before purchasing a ticket. You can watch the "Trial Video" for free to see if it plays without any problems.
*Please complete your viewing by the end of the streaming time, as you will not be able to view the work after this time. (Even if you are in the middle of watching, it will become unavailable.)
* Number of tickets is limited. Please watch the film if you made a reservation. Don't let any tickets go to waste.
Documentary Film Award 2020
Songs of Entoko - The Power of Feebleness -
えんとこの歌 寝たきり歌人・遠藤滋
Director: Ise Shinichi / Japan / 2019 / 96 min
Subtitles: English
Tickets are limited to 200, Online screening is for free , Available Worldwide.
Endo Shigeru, a bedridden poet, spends days at “Entoko” with young caregivers. This film is a record of their interaction over 25 years and depicts how they support each other.
- Running time
- Nov 07 [Sun] 13:00 - 14:36
- End of Streaming Time
- Nov 07 [Sun] 15:36
*Please make sure to check your viewing environment before purchasing a ticket. You can watch the "Trial Video" for free to see if it plays without any problems.
*Please complete your viewing by the end of the streaming time, as you will not be able to view the work after this time. (Even if you are in the middle of watching, it will become unavailable.)
* Number of tickets is limited. Please watch the film if you made a reservation. Don't let any tickets go to waste.
Online talk discussion
2020 Award-winners in Conversation
Available from Nov. 7 to Nov. 30, 2021
- Panelists
- Murakami Hiroyasu (Director,Planet of the Crabs)
Ise Shinichi(Director,Songs of Entoko - The Power of Feebleness -)
Documentary Film Awards 2021
Nov. 14 (Sun)
Screenings
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Documentary Film Award 2021
Silence on that Day
きこえなかったあの日
Director: Imamura Ayako / Japan / 2021 / 116 min
Subtitles: Japanese & English
Tickets are limited to 200, Online screening is for free , Available Worldwide.
The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake, the 2018 floods in western Japan, the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a ten-year record of deaf people’s lives as they dealt with the difficulties brought about by natural disasters, filmed by the director who is also deaf.
- Running time
- Nov 14 [Sun] 11:00 - 12:56
- End of Streaming Time
- Nov 14 [Sun] 13:56
*Please make sure to check your viewing environment before purchasing a ticket. You can watch the "Trial Video" for free to see if it plays without any problems.
*Please complete your viewing by the end of the streaming time, as you will not be able to view the work after this time. (Even if you are in the middle of watching, it will become unavailable.)
* Number of tickets is limited. Please watch the film if you made a reservation. Don't let any tickets go to waste.
Documentary Film Award 2021
Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions
二重のまち／交代地のうたを編む
Directors: Komori Haruka + Seo Natsumi / Japan / 2019 / 79 min
Subtitles: English
Tickets are limited to 200, Online screening is for free , Available Worldwide except for France.
Four young travelers head to Rikuzentakata to listen to the voices of the local people, to repeatedly dialogue with each other, and to recite the story of the Double Layered Town. Through these cycles, the travelers find their own speaking voice.
- Running time
- Nov 14 [Sun] 13:30 - 14:49
- End of Streaming Time
- Nov 14 [Sun] 15:49
*Please make sure to check your viewing environment before purchasing a ticket. You can watch the "Trial Video" for free to see if it plays without any problems.
*Please complete your viewing by the end of the streaming time, as you will not be able to view the work after this time. (Even if you are in the middle of watching, it will become unavailable.)
* Number of tickets is limited. Please watch the film if you made a reservation. Don't let any tickets go to waste.
Documentary Film Award 2021
Singing in the Dark: Erasing the Disabled of Okinawa
夜明け前のうた 消された沖縄の障害者
Director: Hara Yoshikazu / Japan / 2020 / 97 min
Subtitles: English
Tickets are limited to 200, Online screening is for free , Available Worldwide.
Presented by YAMAGATA International Documentary Film Festival (NPO)Incarcerating the mentally ill in sheds and other private enclosures was permitted under Japanese law and continued in Okinawa until 1972. The film leads us to hear the unheard song of victims of this cruel system of social isolation.
- Running time
- Nov 14 [Sun] 15:30 - 17:07
- End of Streaming Time
- Nov 14 [Sun] 18:07
*Please make sure to check your viewing environment before purchasing a ticket. You can watch the "Trial Video" for free to see if it plays without any problems.
*Please complete your viewing by the end of the streaming time, as you will not be able to view the work after this time. (Even if you are in the middle of watching, it will become unavailable.)
* Number of tickets is limited. Please watch the film if you made a reservation. Don't let any tickets go to waste.
Online talk discussion
2021 Award-winners in Conversation
Available from Nov. 14 to Nov. 30, 2021
- Panelists
- Imamura Ayako (Director,Silence on that Day)
Komori Haruka + Seo Natsumi
(Director,Double Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions)
Hara Yoshikazu (Director,Singing in the Dark: Erasing the Disabled of Okinawa)