At Creative Café, we can exchange our opinions with people in Yamagata City of Film without concerning the differences in age, sex, and nationality.

Creative Café

Creative Cafés held in 2017:

• 1st Edition: “Learning Films in Cambodia” on Wednesday, 26 July 2017
  Guest: Candara So / Cambodia
• Related Event to the 1st Edition: “Film Commission Cross Talk: Yamagata, Shinjo & Cambodia” on Friday, 28 July 2017
• 2nd Edition: “Culture as a Diplomatic Tool”
  Guest: Koki J. Fukasaku (from Matsushita Institute of Government and Management)
• 3rd Edition: “Youth and Film (Festival)” on Wednesday, 27 September
• 4th Edition: “Cinema and Yamagata in Autumn”on Wednesday, 25 October
• 5th Edition: “Papua Province and Yamagata” on Wednesday, 29 November
  Guest: Yamagata Papua Friendship Association
• 6th Edition: “Art and Building the Region” on Friday, 15 December
  Guest: NAMAJIMA Yuri (Tohoku University)

Creative Cafés held in 2018:

• 7th Edition: “UNESCO and YAMAGATA” on Wednesday, 17 January
  Guest: NAGASAWA Kohei (Yamagata City International Relation Centre)
• 8th Edition: “A Screening of ALL YAMAGATA movie “HAPPY ENDING” and a talk session inviting the director, Mr. YAMADA Atsuhiro” on Tuesday, 6 February 
  Guest: YAMADA Atsuhiro
• 9th Edition: “Yamagata, Music, and Film” on Sunday, 4 March
  Guest: NISHIHAMA Hideki, KURAKI Natsumi, and KOSEKI Yoshihiro
• 10th Edition:“Mexico ×(crossroads) Yamagata” from Wednesday, 21 to Sunday, 25 March
  Guest: YOKO Sakiko
• 11th Edition: “Community & Art” on Sunday, 22 April
  Guest: Kasetsu