15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards

15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards
15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in cinema and performance in Asia Pacific region
Awarded by	Asia Pacific Screen Academy
Presented by	UNESCO; FIAPF
Date	11 November 2022
Site	Home of the Arts, Gold Coast, Australia
Official website	www.asiapacificscreenawards.com
Highlights
Best Film	Before, Now & Then
Most awards	Return to Seoul (2)
Most nominations	Before, Now & Then (4)
	← 14th; Asia Pacific Screen Awards; 16th →;

The 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards was held on 11 November 2022 at the Home of the Arts, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.^[1]

Jury

The juries are composed of:^[2]

International jury

Guneet Monga, Indian film producer
Mohamed Hefzy, Egyptian screenwriter and producer
Numan Acar, German-Turkish actor and producer
Sophie Hyde, Australian film director
Vimukthi Jayasundara, Sri Lankan filmmaker and critic

International nominations council

Hong-joon Kim, director of Korean Film Archive and a professor emeritus at Korea National University of Arts
Anne Démy-Geroe, Australian film curator and lecturer
Anderson Le, artistic director of Hawaii International Film Festival
Beena Paul, Indian film editor
Delphine Garde-Mroueh, film curator and researcher
Gulnara Abikeyeva, Kazakh film critic and researcher
Kiki Fung, programmer of Hong Kong International Film Festival

Youth, Animation, Documentary international jury

Baby Ruth Villarama, Filipino documentarian and writer
Shin Su-won, South Korean director and screenwriter
Zhao Qi, Chinese documentary filmmaker
Tearepa Kahi, New Zealand director

Youth, Animation, Documentary nominations council

Meenakshi Shedde, Indian film curator
Carl Joseph Papa, Filipino animation filmmaker
Faramarz K-Rahber, Iranian-Australian filmmaker

Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced on 12 October 2022.^[3]

Winners denoted in boldface and with ‡^[4]

Best Film Before, Now & Then – Kamila Andini ‡ Poet – Darezhan Omirbaev Return to Seoul – Davy Chou This Is What I Remember – Aktan Arym Kubat When the Waves Are Gone – Lav Diaz	Best Director Davy Chou – Return to Seoul ‡ Kamila Andini – Before, Now & Then Lav Diaz – When the Waves Are Gone Ameer Fakher Eldin – The Stranger Shin Su-won – Hommage
Best Performance Lee Jung-eun – Hommage as Ji-wan ‡ John Lloyd Cruz – When the Waves Are Gone as Hermes Papauran Aktan Arym Kubat – This Is What I Remember Navid Mohammadzadeh – Beyond the Wall as Ali Happy Salma – Before, Now & Then as Nana	Best Youth Film Farha – Darin J. Sallam ‡ Alam – Firas Khoury Hanging Gardens – Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji Jaggi – Anmol Sidhu Sweet As – Jub Clerc
Best Animated Film Aurora's Sunrise – Inna Sahakyan ‡ Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo – Marya Zarif and André Kadi Goodbye, Don Glees! – Atsuko Ishizuka Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish – Lei Lei To the Bright Side – Xiya Lan, Nianze Li, Yi Zhao, Kun Yu, Gaoxiang Liu, Maoning Liu and Chen Chen	Best Documentary Film All That Breathes – Shaunak Sen ‡ Delikado – Karl Malakunas (Special Mention) Blue Island – Chan Tze-woon Children of the Mist – Diem Ha Le Woodgirls – A Duet for a Dream – Azadeh Bizargiti
Best Screenplay Makbul Mubarak – Autobiography ‡ Vahid Jalilvand – Beyond the Wall Aktan Arym Kubat and Dalmira Tilepbergenova – This Is What I Remember Darezhan Omirbaev – Poet Park Chan-wook and Jeong Seo-kyeong – Decision to Leave	Best Cinematography Niklas Lindschau – The Stranger ‡ Batara Goempar – Before, Now & Then Florent Herry – Snow and the Bear Lv Songye – One and Four Boris Troshev – Poet
Best New Performance Park Ji-min – Return to Seoul‡	Jury Grand Prize This Is What I Remember – Aktan Arym Kubat, Altynai Koichumanova, Denis Vaslin, Yuji Sadai, Carine Chichkowsky and Fleur Knopperts ‡
Cultural Diversity Award (under the patronage of UNESCO) Muru – Tearepa Kahi ‡	Young Cinema Award (in partnership with NETPAC and Griffith Film School) *Saim Sadiq for Joyland* ‡**
FIAPF Award Nadine Labaki ‡

References

^ Frater, Patrick (12 October 2022). "Kamila Andini's 'Before Now and Then' Heads APSA Award Nominations, New Zealand's 'Muru' Collects Diversity Prize". Variety. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
^ "Asia Pacific Screen Academy Announces 15th APSA Nominees, Juries, Reveals First Award Winners". ETNews.uk. 13 October 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
^ Keast, Jackie (13 October 2022). "'Sweet As', 'Delikado' nominated for Asia Pacific Screen Awards". IF Magazine. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
^ "Winners Announced At 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards". Asia Pacific Screen Awards. 12 November 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2022.

External links

Official website

[1] Frater, Patrick (12 October 2022). "Kamila Andini's 'Before Now and Then' Heads APSA Award Nominations, New Zealand's 'Muru' Collects Diversity Prize". Variety. Retrieved 18 October 2022.

[2] "Asia Pacific Screen Academy Announces 15th APSA Nominees, Juries, Reveals First Award Winners". ETNews.uk. 13 October 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2022.

[3] Keast, Jackie (13 October 2022). "'Sweet As', 'Delikado' nominated for Asia Pacific Screen Awards". IF Magazine. Retrieved 18 October 2022.

[4] "Winners Announced At 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards". Asia Pacific Screen Awards. 12 November 2022. Retrieved 26 December 2022.

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v t e Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Main awards	Best Picture Best Animated Feature Film Best Documentary Feature Film Best Youth Feature Film Achievement in Direction Best Screenplay Achievement in Cinematography Best Performance by an Actress Best Performance by an Actor
Special awards	FIAPF Award UNESCO Award Jury Grand Prize Young Cinema Award
Ceremonies	2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Winners and nominees by country	Afghanistan Australia Cambodia Georgia Hong Kong India Indonesia