Payal Kapadia’s All We Think about As Gentle and Dea Kulumbegashvili’s April head the nominations for the 17th Asia Pacific Display screen Awards (APSA), every securing nods in 5 classes.
Each will compete for finest movie, finest director, finest screenplay, finest cinematography and finest efficiency on the awards, which will likely be introduced on November 30 at a ceremony on Australia’s Gold Coast.
Scroll down for full checklist of nominations
All We Think about As Gentle, billed as an ode to nocturnal Mumbai, premiered in Competitors at Cannes, the place it gained the competition’s grand prix. April, the story of a Georgian ob-gyn who faces accusations, premiered in Competitors at Venice, successful the particular jury prize, and has since performed Toronto, San Sebastian and the BFI London Movie Competition.
In one of the best movie class, they are going to go up in opposition to Yoko Yamanaka’s Desert Of Namibia from Japan; Neo Sora’s Japan-US characteristic Happyend; and To Kill A Mongolian Horse by Mongolian director Xiaoxuan Jiang.
4 of the 5 options nominated for finest movie are from feminine administrators, and in an APSA first, all are first or second options.
For the primary time because it was launched, the ungendered finest efficiency class contains 5 girls. They’re India’s Kani Kusruti for All We Think about As Gentle, Georgia’s Ia Sukhitashvili for April, Japan’s Yuumi Kawai for Desert Of Namibia, Kazakh performer Madina Akylbekova for Madina and Iranian Soheila Golestani for The Seed Of The Sacred Fig.
Tracey Vieira, chair of the Asia Pacific Display screen Awards, stated: “In 2024, two thirds of our nominated movies are debut or second movies, representing the cinematic excellence of the subsequent era of Asia Pacific voices, and the distinctive and compelling tales they’re selecting to inform.”
Additionally to be introduced in the course of the ceremony are the 4 recipients of the MPA APSA Academy Movie Fund grants of $25,000, supported by the MPA (Movement Image Affiliation) Asia Pacific.
The awards happen on the finish of the 6th Asia Pacific Display screen Discussion board, set to happen from November 27-30.
17th Asia Pacific Display screen Awards nominations
Finest Movie
All We Think about As Gentle (Fr-India-Neth-Lux)
April (Geo-It-Fr)
Desert of Namibia (Japan)
Happyend (Japan-US)
To Kill A Mongolian Horse (Malay-HK-S Kor-Japan-Saudi-Thai-US)
Finest Youth Movie
Boong (India)
Magic Seashore (Australia)
She Sat There Like All Bizarre Ones (China)
Sunshine (Phil)
The Mountain (NZ)
Finest Animated Movie
Ghost Cat Anzu (Japan-Fr)
Memoir Of A Snail (Australia)
Pig That Survived Foot-And-Mouth Illness (S Kor)
The Colours Inside (Japan)
The Lacking (Phil)
Finest Documentary Movie
Breaking The Cycle (Thai)
Kamay (Afg-Bel-Fr-Ger)
No Different Land (Pal-Nor)
XiXi (Tai-Phil-S Kor)
Youth (Homecoming) (Fr-Lux-Neth)
Finest Director
Payal Kapadia, All We Think about As Gentle
Dea Kulumbegashvili, April
Tato Kotetishvili, Holy Electrical energy
Rithy Panh, Assembly With Pol Pot
Xiaoxuan Jiang, To Kill A Mongolian Horse
Finest Screenplay
Payal Kapadia, All We Think about As Gentle
Dea Kulumbegashvili, April
Neo Sora, Happyend
Selman Nacar, Hesitation Wound
PS Vinothraj, The Adamant Woman
Finest Cinematography
Ranabir Das, All We Think about As Gentle
Arseni Khachaturan, April
Michaël Capron, Mongrel
Hideho Urata, Stranger Eyes
Son Doan, Viet And Nam
Finest Efficiency
Kani Kusruti, All We Think about As Gentle
Ia Sukhitashvili, April
Yuumi Kawai, Desert Of Namibia
Madina Akylbekova, Madina
Soheila Golestani, The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
