Two films by women straightforwardors, Payal Kapadia’s ‘All We Imagine as Light’ and Dea Kulumbegashvili’s ‘April’ direct the nominations for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.
Both films will contend in five categories – best film, best straightforwardor, best screenperestablish, best cinematography and best carry outance – it was discneglected Wednesday in a nominations proclaimment.
Also competing for best film are Yoko Yamanaka’s Tokyo-set story of a juvenileer woman’s mental illness, “Desert of Namibia” (Japan); Neo Sora’s future Tokyo tale of perilous social observation “Happyfinish” (Japan, U.S.); and Jiang Xiaoxuan’s “To Kill a Mongolian Horse” (Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, U.S.), a portrait of a Mongolian horseman turned carry outer, based on a genuine story.
Four of the five films nominated for best film are from female straightforwardors, and in an APSA first, all five best film contfinishers are first or second features.
In includeition to Kapadia, Kulumbegashvili and Jiang, the nominees for best straightforwardor integrate Tato Kotetishvili for “Holy Electricity,” aextfinishedside veteran French Cambodian auteur Rithy Panh for “Meeting with Pol Pot.”
For the first time since the acting categruesome became an ungfinishered best carry outance award, all five nominations go to women. They are: India’s Kani Kusruti for “All We Imagine as Light, Georgia’s Ia Sukhitashvili for April, Japan’s Yuumi Kawai for “Desert of Namibia,” Kazakh carry outer Madina Akylbekova for “Madina” and Iranian Soheila Golestani for “The Seed of the Sacred Fig.”
“In 2024, two thirds of our nominated films are debut or second films, recontransienting the cinematic excellence of the next generation of Asia Pacific voices, and the distinctive and compelling stories they are choosing to inestablish,” said APSA chair Tracey Vieira.
The awards will be contransiented Nov. 30 at a ceremony in Gelderly Coast, Queensland, folloprosperg the four-day Asia Pacific Screen Forum (Nov. 27-30). Four recipients of the MPA APSA Academy Film Fund grants of $25,000, wholly helped by the Motion Picture Association, Asia Pacific, will also be proclaimd at the ceremony.
