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<p class="ydp6418b290MsoNormal">Eija, I presume that the main consideration for YIDFF is to
coincide the festival with a holiday weekend, <i>to wit</i> Sports Day which
falls on Monday October 9<sup>th</sup> next year. Indeed, most of the films are
shown during that 3-day long weekend with quite slim pickings either side. I
always thought that was to do with many of their potential audience coming up
from Tokyo and other cities.<span> </span>But it might also be hall availability.</p>
<div class="ydp6418b290MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none">Yes, if I manage next year to afford flights from Europe
– around the Russian landmass and doubtless more expensive – I would have liked
to visit both. Declaring my personal interest, I suggest a move to ‘Respect the
Aged Day’ on September 18<sup>th</sup>, which also might fit better with the European teaching year. But then, that would clash with San
Sebastian FF, who sometimes do a Japanese strand. The main thing that would get
me to Yamagata, whatever the date,
is if there were a full week of competition screenings.</div><div class="ydp6418b290MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Roger<br></div>
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On Monday, 24 October 2022 at 13:37:17 BST, Eija Niskanen via KineJapan <kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp72efe324yiv8094970329"><div dir="ltr">I started wondering how far (regionally) festival organizers look when deciding on the time period of their festival within the international/regional/national film festival circuit. <div><br></div><div>Take for ec. Yamagata Documentary FF 2023. YIDFF has marked days Oct 5 on. If Busan Film festival happens as it has been happening for its run of some 25 years, it will take place Oct 4th on. Meaning these two would completely overlap. Pre-pandemic YIDFF used to start Thursday the 2nd week of October, so it was possible for many to go both to Busan and YIDFF. As Busan is de facto the most important East Asian film festival now, many film critics, film festival programmers etc. would have to go Busan only in 2023 and skip YIDFF. Busan does have project markets etc. also for documentary filmmakers. </div><div><br></div><div>Or does YIDFF count as having completely different participants than Busan? </div><div><br></div><div>Naturally I understand that festivals cannot just decide the dates they want, but the supporters, such as the city of Yamagata might have offered them venues only during the period starting Oct 5th. <br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="ydp72efe324yiv8094970329gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Eija Niskanen</div><div><a href="http://helsinkicineaasia.fi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">helsinkicineaasia.fi</a></div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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