• Date : November 27(Sat), 2010


• Place : Large Hall, Arts Building in Natinal Olympics Memorial Youth Center, Tokyo, Japan

The life I value most

  We are happy and grateful to announce that your support has made it possible to hold the 3rd IFOF. The last two years' IFOF have been accepted and welcomed with high regard by both old and young.

  Members of Steering Committee have also found the depth and the scope organic agriculture has and are deeply impressed by its implication that organic agriculture is not just how-to of farming but is a wholistic concept which enfolds how we should grasp the nature, how we are to live with forest, water, soil and all the creatures that live on our planet.

  We have focused our effort on these vast and deep aspects of organic agriculture to be expressed in the program of the IFOF 2009.

  During the last tow decades, the earth and our lives underwent decay and segmentation by an idea and system that is all too simple and cold, the winner or the loser in a competitive world of economy.

  Under the pressure of this modern competitive world, we are trying to rediscover and redo our relationship with nature and also to re-establish relationship among us humans.
We would be gratified if everyone of our friends would come to IFOF 2009 and find in the selected films such possibilities organic agriculture have.

  We have also provided a chance to participate in the film festival for those who wish to express views on nature, farming and food with 3 minutes video works.

  Please drop in at the film festival and feel and enjoy the organic world.

• Date : November 27(Fri) & 28(Sat), 2009
  
• Place : Large Hall, Arts Building in Natinal Olympics Memorial Youth Center, Tokyo, Japan
• Time :
  27(Fri) 　12:00〜20:00 ( Open at 11:30 )
  28(Sat) 　9:30〜21:00 ( Open at 9:10 )
• Subscription:
  27(Fri)　　　　　¥1500.00
  28(Sat)　　 　　¥2000.00
  2 days ticket ¥3000.00
• Hosted by :
  International Film Festival on Organic Farming Executive Committee/
  Tokyo Peace Film Club
• Collaborator :
  Japan Organic Agriculture Association/
  Pacific Asia Resource Centre(PARC)
• Registration and Obtaining Ticket
  For obtaining ticket and participating IFOF, please register with the following information.
      Your Name, Address with postal code, phone number
  Purchasing Ticket: Contact us by E-mail( ticket@yuki-eiga.com ) by the end of October. When your registration is completed and ticket fee is remitted, a ticket will be sent to the address you registered.
  Registration will start from 1st of September.

• Special Event 1: 28(Sat) 14:20 – 15:30
  Special Talk on "What is on Asian Villages now"
  There are 3 films depicting Asian farmers' fight against globalization. Two among them were from Laos by chance. Visiting students of Organic Agriculture at Asian Rural Institute (ARI) situated at Nasu-Shiobara shi, Tochigi, Mr.Houmphan from Laos and Ms.Polkhayan from Thai will talk on the backgrounds and situations in Laos and Northeast Thai.
  


• Special Event 2 : 27(Fri) 19:30 – 20:00
  New farmers talk:"the life I value most"
  With a special reference to the film "A Farm with Future Vision", we will have 3 new organic farmers to talk about their view on life they value most. There will be a casual talk after their presentation.
  


• Special Event 3: 27(Fri) 16:00 – 16:50
  3 min. video show: "My view of food and farming"
  This gives chance to go one step forward from "just watch" to "make and show"for you. It is our wish that more people will take part in IFOF thru making videos and films for 3min. video show. Your entry of 3 min. video on food and farming is most welcome.
  

  >> Detail

  
  

　111min./Philippines･Japan/2002
　Produced by: "ABONG/Small Home" Production Exhibition Committee
　Directed by: IMAIZUMI Koji
　Language: English, Tagalog / Subtitle: Japanese

This is a story of a family of a migrant worker who is a Japanese descendant living in the mountainous area of Luzon, Philippines. Everyone in the world is working hard for their children but we are now losing sight of the fact that we all live by the gifts of other lives. This film poses a question " how and what really is it to live on this Earth? " This is a film of fairy tale of a family living in southern pacific island facing modern day challenges. 　　>> Official site

Start １４：０５
The Village Submerged
　92min./Japan/2007
　Directed and Filmed by ONISHI Nobuo
　Planned and Produced by: MOTOHASHI Seiichi, Polepole Times Co., Ltd.
　Aid Fund by: Art and Culture Promotion Fund
　Language: Japanese / Subtitle: Not Available

Water dam construction became hot issue among people of Tokuyama village in Gifu in 1957. Almost 1500 villagers had evacuated one after another to newly allocated site nearby but a few elderly people returned so as to live till the village went under the water. A photographer Nobuo Onishi frequently visited this village since his first visit in 1991 when he was fascinated by the way of living of old folks. The villagers had wisdom to value seasonal gifts of the nature. When the dam was completed, water began to web that no one could ever return to their homes again. This film is a record of 15 years with old folks　and their close relationship with nature.

Start １７：０５
All are gifts of the Nature, Weather-Mama of Western Aizu
　50min./Japan/2008
　Planned and Produced by NHK, Director: USAGAWA Takashi
　Language: Japanese / Subtitle: Not Available

"Garden sowing season begins when rum buds are bulging" or "rain is not near when swallow flies high" are some of the phrases reminiscent of old days spoken by Ms Fumiko Suzuki known as a weather-Mama. She has been studying and practicing in her farm what her grandfather used to say about weather. Years of her keen interest and observation on plants and other creatures in the vicinity that is rich with nature in Nishi-Aizu in Fukushima prefecture has now made it possible for her to foretell the weather of as far ahead as a year away with 70-80% accuracy. She is full of love when she appears to be talking with animals and plants.

Start １９：００
A Farm with Future Vision
　26min./Japan/2008
　Produced and directed by UCHIDA Kazuo
　Language: Japanese / Subtitle: Not Available

A year of document at Kirisato Farm located in Ogawa-machi in west Saitama pref. run by Yoshinori Kaneko, one of the founding fathers of modern organic agriculture in Japan. Kaneko gives hands on training to young interns of organic agriculture who live together for a year. After one year of internship, they depart to be farmers of future Japan with hopes and dreams.

Start　９：３５
King Corn
　90min./USA/2007
　Director and Producer Aaron Woolf
　Cast & Co-producer; Ian Cheney, Curt Ellis
　Language: English / Subtitles: Japanese
　Trailer:http://www.kingcorn.net/

All food is derived from corn….　Americans are made of corn. Two young men close on corn that is in almost all foods Americans eat. Their first move was to take up hands on experience of producing corn in a great corn producing state of Iowa and then to follow on its course to consumer plates. Through corn, the film reveals such issues Americans face today as monoculture, a large scale agriculture, a large scale animal industry, obesity and bio-ethanol.

Start １１：３０
System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
　20min./Laos/2008
　Produced by: Japan International Volunteer Center(JVC)
　Language: Lao / Subtitle: Japanese、English

Rice shortage prevails in the villages of Laos for almost half a year. JVC is working to increase rice yield through improvement of rice culture technique called SRI which introduces a single young　nursery planting system. It is aimed to remove heavy burden of expansive chemicals from farmers by turning them to organic farming.

Start １１：５０
Seven Farmers in Laos
　42min./Laos/2008
　Directed by: Tondam Pongbichet
　Produced by: Sustainable Agriculture & Environment Development Association(SAEDA)/ Lao Extension for Agriculture　Project
　Language: Lao / Subtitle: Japanese

Mekong river runs into Laos and to the vicinity of capital city, carrying agro-chemical contaminated water from Thai and in the north from China. SAEDA, a NGO under the leadership of Tondam, is promoting organic farming without such chemical fertilizers or pesticides. The film shows farmers effort to revitalize traditional wisdom in the midst of rapid development.

Start １３：２０
Rice; The Life of Asia
　52min./Malaysia/2007
　Produced by: Pesticide Action Network Asia and Pacific(PAN)
　Language: English / Subtitle: Japanese

This film depicts, through rice related festivals and ceremonies, how deep rice is rooted in the lives of people of Thai, Philippines, Indonesia, India and Bangladesh in their daily living, history, culture and environment. In the last half of the film, it shows how multinational corporations and governments are posing threat to people and small farmers in these countries by introducing high yield variety of rice that ravages farmlands, and the fights of farmers against such threat.

Start １５：４５
This World is For All Life
　80min./Japan/1984
　Planned & Filmed by KIKUCHI Shu, Edited by KAMEI Fumio
　Language: Japanese / Subtitle: Not Available

A documentary of garden creatures in Ohira Farm that turned from heavy chemical use to non-chemical farming. Ohira farm, a leading figure in national campaign for food production boost after the WW2, had lost the previous head of the family to chemical poisoning and his successor Hiroshi Ohira had almost lost his sight to the same cause. " We must go back to farming of old days "said his mother and that was the start of Hiroshi's soil building days. "Worms eat leaves, birds eat worms and birds leave shit that enriches soil and become nutrient for vegetable "says Hiroshi. All these living creatures are co-workers at his farm. This film is also a last message of a documentalist Fumio Kamei. 　　　　　Trailer(Japaneas) 　　　　　 　　　　　　　(C)2009 Tokyo Shasin Kobo

Start １７：２５
Beyond Organic The Vision of Fairview Garden
　33min./USA/2000
　Directed by John Graaf, Produced by Center for Urban Agriculture
　Language: English / Subtitle: Japanese

A documentary film of a young farmer in California Michael Ableman who struggled to keep his farm while a wave of urbanization brought new settlers all around the farm. Even though Ableman managed to calm down complaints and pressure from new neighbors to quit farming for the annoying smell of compost and cock crow by turning his farm into a hands-on learning center of real food for urban people, the land owner was in the process to sell the farmland to a housing developer. The farm was on the verge of closure when CSA members came to rescue and raised enough fund to keep the farm going as Non Profit Organization. This film shows possibilities of urban agriculture.

Start １８：４５
Living Soil
　41min./Japan/1982
　Planned by Natural Farming Research Center, MOA Production
　Produced by Sakura Motion Picture
　Language: Japanese / Subtitle: Not Available

Issues of food and agriculture have direct impact on our health. The film gives scientific picture of "Living Soil" that produces healthy crops at farm managed by Kazuo Suka, a natural farmer who has succeeded in building such living soil. This is a priceless report of possibility of natural farming in contrast to modern agriculture system that is based on industrial view point. It also documents problems of modern agriculture and lessons learnt from them.

Start １９：４５
Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
　53min./USA/2006
　Produced by: Community Solutions
　Directed by: Faith Morgan
　Language: English, Spanish / Subtitle: Japanese
　Trailer: http://www.powerofcommunity.org/

When Cuba lost access to Soviet oil in the early 1990s, the country faced an immediate crisis-feeding the population-and an ongoing challenge: how to create a new low-energy society. Cuba transitioned from large, fossil-fuel intensive farming to small, less energy-intensive organic farms and urban gardens, and from a highly industrial society to a more sustainable one. This film tells story of the Cuban people's challenge to change their agriculture, industry, housing, education, medical care and energy without anyone lost for starvation or lack of medical attention even under the most severe economic climate. The keyword people found is " the Power of Community". Some day we all must face the peak oil where Cuban experience has a lot to tell.

In this summer, International Film Festival on Organic Farming in Ikeda 2009 will be held in Ikedacho, Fukui. As for "Ozaki -San of Frandon Farm School", seven works will be shown. The lecture of HOSHI Kanji (Takahata-cho, Yamagata) is planned, too.

　・Ozaki -San of Frandon Farm School
　・Non to GMO, A Message from France
　・One man, One cow, One planet
　・Farmers of Life
　・Olive tree
　・This World is For All Life
　・The Land We Live - Farmers of Sanrizuka

　Date ： August 22(Sat), 2009
　Place: Large Hall, Noh-no-Sato cultural exchange, Ikedacyo, Fukui, Japan
　　　　　　5-1, Yabuta, Ikedatyo, Fukui　TEL：0778-44-7000
　　　　　　Map：http://www.fukuiweb.com/nou-movie/map.html (Jaapanes)
　Time : 9:30 - 21:00( Open at 9:00 )
　Subscription; ¥2000.00
　Hosted by : IFOF in Ikeda Planning Committee
　　　　　　　http://www.fukuiweb.com/nou-movie/ (Japanes)