Carl Joseph Papa and Geo Lomuntad and Dan Villegas
Best Animated Film, 2024

Carl Joseph Papa and Geo Lomuntad and Dan Villegas

Best Animated Film, 2024

Carl Joseph Papa and Geo Lomuntad and Dan Villegas

The Missing (Iti Mapukpukaw) (Iti Mapukpukaw)

Eric lives a rather normal life as an animator in the Philippines. But one thing extraordinary about him is his lack of a mouth. One…

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Yoko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita and Keiichi Kondo and Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron and Hiroyuki Negishi
Best Animated Film, 2024

Yoko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita and Keiichi Kondo and Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron and Hiroyuki Negishi

Best Animated Film, 2024

Yoko Kuno and Nobuhiro Yamashita and Keiichi Kondo and Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron and Hiroyuki Negishi

Ghost Cat Anzu

Eleven-year-old Karin is abandoned by her father at the house of her grandfather, the monk of a small town in the Japanese countryside. Her grandfather…

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Adam Elliot and Liz Kearney
Best Animated Film, 2024

Adam Elliot and Liz Kearney

Best Animated Film, 2024

Adam Elliot and Liz Kearney

Memoir of a Snail

Grace Pudel, a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books, retells her life story to a humble…

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Hur Bum-wook and Cho Heaseung
Best Animated Film, 2024

Hur Bum-wook and Cho Heaseung

Best Animated Film, 2024

Hur Bum-wook and Cho Heaseung

Pig That Survived Foot-and-Mouth Disease

Having survived foot-and-mouth disease only on willpower, Pig H swears that he must become human in order not to die as trash. He is ready…

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Naoko Yamada and Eunyoung Choi and Yoshihiro Furusawa and Genki Kawamura and Wakana Okamura and Kohei Sakita
Best Animated Film, 2024

Naoko Yamada and Eunyoung Choi and Yoshihiro Furusawa and Genki Kawamura and Wakana Okamura and Kohei Sakita

Best Animated Film, 2024

Naoko Yamada and Eunyoung Choi and Yoshihiro Furusawa and Genki Kawamura and Wakana Okamura and Kohei Sakita

The Colors Within (Kimi no Iro) (Kimi no Iro)

Synesthete Totsuko can see others as colours. Honours student Kimi has dropped out of school but still pretends to attend for her grandmother’s sake. They…

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Michaël Capron
Best Cinematography, 2024

Michaël Capron

Best Cinematography, 2024

Michaël Capron

Mongrel

Michaël Capron is a cinematographer based in Paris. He studied cinematography at La Fémis, the French national film school. Graduating in 2010, he shot several…

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Arseni Khachaturan
Best Cinematography, 2024

Arseni Khachaturan

Best Cinematography, 2024

Arseni Khachaturan

April

Arseni Khachaturan is a cinematographer based in New York. He was born in Minsk, Belarus, and was invested in arts from a young age, experimenting…

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Hideho Urata
Best Cinematography, 2024

Hideho Urata

Best Cinematography, 2024

Hideho Urata

Stranger Eyes

Hideho Urata is a cinematographer based in Singapore, originally from Japan, He embarked on his career in the United States, where he honed his skills…

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Ranabir Das
Best Cinematography, 2024

Ranabir Das

Best Cinematography, 2024

Ranabir Das

All We Imagine as Light

Ranabir Das is a cinematographer based in Mumbai. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India. His first feature film as a cinematographer,…

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Son Doan
Best Cinematography, 2024

Son Doan

Best Cinematography, 2024

Son Doan

Viet and Nam

Born in 1984, Son Doan began working on film sets in 2012 after studying cinematography at INSAS in Brussels. In 2017, he shot Meryem Ben m’Barek’s…

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Tato Kotetishvili
Best Director, 2024

Tato Kotetishvili

Best Director, 2024

Tato Kotetishvili

Holy Electricity

Tato Kotetishvili was born in the Georgian capital Tbilisi and studied at the Polish National Film School in Lodz. Currently Tato lives in Tbilisi and…

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Dea Kulumbegashvili
Best Director, 2024

Dea Kulumbegashvili

Best Director, 2024

Dea Kulumbegashvili

April

Dea Kulumbegashvili is Georgian writer-director based in Tbilisi. Her debut short film Invisible Spaces was nominated for a Palme d’Or du Court Métrage at the…

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Payal Kapadia
Best Director, 2024

Payal Kapadia

Best Director, 2024

Payal Kapadia

All We Imagine as Light

Payal Kapadia is a Mumbai-based filmmaker. She studied film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India. Her short films Afternoon Clouds and And What Is The Summer Saying…

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Rithy Panh
Best Director, 2024

Rithy Panh

Best Director, 2024

Rithy Panh

Meeting with Pol Pot

Rithy Panh was born in 1964 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. At the age of 11, like all Cambodians, he was interned in Khmer rouge camps…

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Xiaoxuan Jiang
Best Director, 2024

Xiaoxuan Jiang

Best Director, 2024

Xiaoxuan Jiang

To Kill a Mongolian Horse

Xiaoxuan Jiang is a writer-director born in Inner Mongolia, China. She received her BFA in Film & TV from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.…

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Basel Adra and Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham and Fabien Greenberg and Bård Kjøge Rønning
Best Documentary Film, 2024

Basel Adra and Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham and Fabien Greenberg and Bård Kjøge Rønning

Best Documentary Film, 2024

Basel Adra and Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal and Yuval Abraham and Fabien Greenberg and Bård Kjøge Rønning

No Other Land

For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation and builds an unlikely alliance…

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Aekaphong Saransate and Thanakrit Duangmaneeporn and Komtouch Napattaloong and Tanwarat Sombatwattana
Best Documentary Film, 2024

Aekaphong Saransate and Thanakrit Duangmaneeporn and Komtouch Napattaloong and Tanwarat Sombatwattana

Best Documentary Film, 2024

Aekaphong Saransate and Thanakrit Duangmaneeporn and Komtouch Napattaloong and Tanwarat Sombatwattana

Breaking the Cycle

Breaking the Cycle captures the political awakening among Thais after the rise and fall of Thanatorn, a young politician who calls to end the cycle…

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Ilyas Yourish and Shahrokh Bikaraan and Hanne Phlypo and Evelien De Graef
Best Documentary Film, 2024

Ilyas Yourish and Shahrokh Bikaraan and Hanne Phlypo and Evelien De Graef

Best Documentary Film, 2024

Ilyas Yourish and Shahrokh Bikaraan and Hanne Phlypo and Evelien De Graef

Kamay

In the remote mountains of central Afghanistan, a Hazara family seeks justice after the death of their daughter Zahra at Kabul University. Told through the…

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Fan Wu and Venice De Castro Atienza and Sona Jo and Yoonsoo Her
Best Documentary Film, 2024

Fan Wu and Venice De Castro Atienza and Sona Jo and Yoonsoo Her

Best Documentary Film, 2024

Fan Wu and Venice De Castro Atienza and Sona Jo and Yoonsoo Her

XiXi

XiXi is a captivating and free-spirited performer living in Europe. Drawn to the artist’s unique style and Chinese roots, Taiwanese director Fan Wu sparks dialogue…

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Wang Bing and Sonia Buchman and Mao Hui and Nicolas R de la Mothe and Vincent Wang
Best Documentary Film, 2024

Wang Bing and Sonia Buchman and Mao Hui and Nicolas R de la Mothe and Vincent Wang

Best Documentary Film, 2024

Wang Bing and Sonia Buchman and Mao Hui and Nicolas R de la Mothe and Vincent Wang

Youth (Homecoming) (Qing Chun (Gui))

As the New Year break is coming, textile workshops in Zhili are almost deserted. The few remaining employees are desperate to be paid for their…

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Dea Kulumbegashvili and Ilan Amouyal and Archil Gelovani and Luca Guadagnino and Gabriele Bebe Moratti and Alexandra Rossi and David Zerat and Francesco Melzi d'Eril
Best Film, 2024

Dea Kulumbegashvili and Ilan Amouyal and Archil Gelovani and Luca Guadagnino and Gabriele Bebe Moratti and Alexandra Rossi and David Zerat and Francesco Melzi d'Eril

Best Film, 2024

Dea Kulumbegashvili and Ilan Amouyal and Archil Gelovani and Luca Guadagnino and Gabriele Bebe Moratti and Alexandra Rossi and David Zerat and Francesco Melzi d'Eril

April

After a newborn dies during delivery, the morals and professionalism of Ob/gyn Nina come under scrutiny amid rumours that she performs illegal abortions for those…

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Payal Kapadia and Thomas Hakim and Julien Graff
Best Film, 2024

Payal Kapadia and Thomas Hakim and Julien Graff

Best Film, 2024

Payal Kapadia and Thomas Hakim and Julien Graff

All We Imagine as Light

In Mumbai, nurse Prabha’s routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate Anu meanwhile tries in vain…

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Yoko Yamanaka and Keisuke Konishi
Best Film, 2024

Yoko Yamanaka and Keisuke Konishi

Best Film, 2024

Yoko Yamanaka and Keisuke Konishi

Desert of Namibia

For 21-year-old Kana, thinking about the future is too boring, and she doesn’t know what she wants in life. She lacks passion for anything, and…

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Neo Sora and Albert Tholen and Aiko Masubuchi and Eric Nyari and Alex C Lo and Anthony Chen
Best Film, 2024

Neo Sora and Albert Tholen and Aiko Masubuchi and Eric Nyari and Alex C Lo and Anthony Chen

Best Film, 2024

Neo Sora and Albert Tholen and Aiko Masubuchi and Eric Nyari and Alex C Lo and Anthony Chen

Happyend

In a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake pervades daily life, two rabble-rousing best friends are about to graduate from high school.…

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Xiaoxuan Jiang and Zhulin Mo
Best Film, 2024

Xiaoxuan Jiang and Zhulin Mo

Best Film, 2024

Xiaoxuan Jiang and Zhulin Mo

To Kill a Mongolian Horse

Amid the wintry steppes, Saina, a Mongolian horseman turned cultural performer, tends his ranch during the day and performs horseback tricks for audiences at night.…

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Data Chachua
Best New Performer, 2024

Data Chachua

Best New Performer, 2024

Data Chachua

Panopticon

After his father abandons him to become an Orthodox monk, introverted 19-year-old Sandro struggles to reconcile his duty to God and his awakening sexuality. The…

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Ia Sukhitashvili
Best Performance, 2024

Ia Sukhitashvili

Best Performance, 2024

Ia Sukhitashvili

April

Ia Sukhitashvili was born on August 29, 1980, in Tbilisi, Georgia. She graduated from Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film State University in 2001 with a specialisation…

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Kani Kusruti
Best Performance, 2024

Kani Kusruti

Best Performance, 2024

Kani Kusruti

All We Imagine as Light

Kani Kusruti is an Indian actress based in Kochi. She was awarded Best Actress in the Kerala State Film Awards 2020 and the BRICS Best…

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Madina Akylbekova
Best Performance, 2024

Madina Akylbekova

Best Performance, 2024

Madina Akylbekova

Madina

Madina Akylbek was born on September 27, 1987, in Almaty. She excelled academically, graduating from a special maths program with a Golden Medal, but her…

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Soheila Golestani
Best Performance, 2024

Soheila Golestani

Best Performance, 2024

Soheila Golestani

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Soheila Golestani, born in 1980, is an actress and director who has been working professionally since the mid-noughties. She has appeared in films such as…

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Yuumi Kawai
Best Performance, 2024

Yuumi Kawai

Best Performance, 2024

Yuumi Kawai

Desert of Namibia

Yuumi Kawai was born in 2000 and raised in Tokyo. In 2021, her performances in the films It’s a Summer Film! and A Balance were…

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Selman Nacar
Best Screenplay, 2024

Selman Nacar

Best Screenplay, 2024

Selman Nacar

Hesitation Wound (Tereddüt Çizgisi) (Tereddüt Çizgisi)

Selman Nacar is a filmmaker with an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University in New York City. He gave lectures on fiction filmmaking at…

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Dea Kulumbegashvili
Best Screenplay, 2024

Dea Kulumbegashvili

Best Screenplay, 2024

Dea Kulumbegashvili

April

Dea Kulumbegashvili is Georgian writer-director based in Tbilisi. Her debut short film Invisible Spaces was nominated for a Palme d’Or du Court Métrage at the…

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Neo Sora
Best Screenplay, 2024

Neo Sora

Best Screenplay, 2024

Neo Sora

Happyend

Raised in New York and Tokyo, Neo Sora is a filmmaker, artist, and translator living between the two cities. He directed the feature-length concert film Ryuichi…

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Payal Kapadia
Best Screenplay, 2024

Payal Kapadia

Best Screenplay, 2024

Payal Kapadia

All We Imagine as Light

Payal Kapadia is a Mumbai-based filmmaker. She studied film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India. Her short films Afternoon Clouds and And What Is The Summer Saying…

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P S Vinothraj
Best Screenplay, 2024

P S Vinothraj

Best Screenplay, 2024

P S Vinothraj

The Adamant Girl (Kottukkaali) (Kottukkaali)

P S Vinothraj is a filmmaker hailing from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. Owing to poverty, he dropped out of school when he was in fourth…

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Lakshmipriya Devi and Alan McAlex and Vikesh Bhutani and Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar and Shujaat Saudagar
Best Youth Film, 2024

Lakshmipriya Devi and Alan McAlex and Vikesh Bhutani and Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar and Shujaat Saudagar

Best Youth Film, 2024

Lakshmipriya Devi and Alan McAlex and Vikesh Bhutani and Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar and Shujaat Saudagar

Boong

In the Indian valley of Manipur, a little boy named Boong plans to surprise his mother by bringing his long-absent father back home. When the…

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Robert Connolly and Emma Kelly and Susan Danta and Lee Whitmore and Anthony Lucas and Kathy Sarpi and Eddie White and Simon Rippingale and Pierce Davison and Marieka Walsh and Susie Shapones and Jake Duczynski and Liz Kearney and Kate Laurie and Chloé Brugalé
Best Youth Film, 2024

Robert Connolly and Emma Kelly and Susan Danta and Lee Whitmore and Anthony Lucas and Kathy Sarpi and Eddie White and Simon Rippingale and Pierce Davison and Marieka Walsh and Susie Shapones and Jake Duczynski and Liz Kearney and Kate Laurie and Chloé Brugalé

Best Youth Film, 2024

Robert Connolly and Emma Kelly and Susan Danta and Lee Whitmore and Anthony Lucas and Kathy Sarpi and Eddie White and Simon Rippingale and Pierce Davison and Marieka Walsh and Susie Shapones and Jake Duczynski and Liz Kearney and Kate Laurie and Chloé Brugalé

Magic Beach

After reading the iconic book by Alison Lester, nine children (and one dog) find themselves on the titular Magic Beach. They explore caves, build giant…

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Qu Youjia and Meng Xie and Xianjian Wu
Best Youth Film, 2024

Qu Youjia and Meng Xie and Xianjian Wu

Best Youth Film, 2024

Qu Youjia and Meng Xie and Xianjian Wu

She Sat There Like All Ordinary Ones (Kai Shi De Qiang) (Kai Shi De Qiang)

On their first encounter, late bloomer Zhuang takes the blame for the theft of a starting gun by schoolmate and distance runner Meng. Just before…

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Antoinette Jadaone and Geo Lomuntad and Dan Villegas and Bianca Balbuena
Best Youth Film, 2024

Antoinette Jadaone and Geo Lomuntad and Dan Villegas and Bianca Balbuena

Best Youth Film, 2024

Antoinette Jadaone and Geo Lomuntad and Dan Villegas and Bianca Balbuena

Sunshine

A young gymnast finds out she is pregnant in the week of the Philippine national team tryouts. On her way to a seller of illegal…

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