15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards

Film awards ceremony

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 (2022-11-11)
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)

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

## Jury

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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

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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

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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

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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.

## External links

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* Official website

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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|

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Winners and nominees
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