APSA Nominees & Winners

For his remarkable vision, the International Nomination Council commends Abbas Kiarostami with a special Artistic Acknowledgement, and the APSA Academy confers a posthumous Academy membership on…

A woman lives alone on the outskirts of her Russian village. One day she receives a returned care package that she had sent to her…

Reza and his family lead a simple life working on his goldfish farm in a northern Iranian village. Nearby, a private company with close links…

Based on the popular best-selling manga series written and illustrated by Yoshitoki Ōima, Naoko Yamada’s A Silent Voice begins at a Japanese elementary school where Shoya Ishida…

Aktan Arym Kubat’s sixth features follows Centaur, a quiet and modest man who lives a simple life in a small Kyrgyzstan village. A loving father…

Ana Urushadze hails from Georgia and was born in Tblisi in 1990 and graduated from the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Georgia State Film University (TAFU)…

In a small seaside town in southern China, a scandal breaks out when two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia,…

Teenagers Ali and Zuhal grew up together in an orphanage with a bond as strong as siblings. When Ali moves out on account of his…

Writer and director Boris Khlebnikov made his feature screenwriting and directorial debut with the internationally successful Roads to Koktebel (2003), which won the Philip Morris…

Cut Mini is a highly-regarded actress from Jakarta, Indonesia, who began her career as a model in the late 1980s. Over the last two decades…