APSA Nominees & Winners

The odyssey of Aurora Mardiganian from Armenian genocide survivor to silent movie star is close to unreal. Having lost her family, escaped slavery and now…

A few nigella seeds tucked in the palm of her hand, 6-year-old Dounia leaves Aleppo with the Princess of Aleppo’s help and travels towards a…

As childhood friends in a small country town Roma and Toto go by the name of “the DonGlees,” and have a small fireworks event together…

In a world of propaganda images, surrealist collage and pop-art animation, artist-filmmaker Lei Lei and his family recall the past to make sense of the…

This anthology film, comprised of seven animated stories, focuses on “love and emotion”. Adapted from seven original Chinese picture books, it follows the common interactions…

Davy Chou is a French director and producer born in 1983, based between Paris and Phnom Penh. He co-founded the French production company Vycky Films and…

Ameer Fakher Eldin is a Syrian writer and director based in Germany. He was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1991 to Syrian parents from the…

Kamila Andini is a mother and filmmaker based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Her concern of socialculture, gender equality,and environmental issues lead to her passion to make…

SHIN Su-won was born in 1967. Her first feature Passerby #3 (2010) won the Best Asian-Middle Eastern Film award at the 23rd Tokyo International Film Festival. Her…

The story of Delhi’s apocalyptic air and its escalating communal violence is woven together by an unlikely figure – the black kite. In the toxic…

Within the idyllic Philippine tourist destination of Palawan, illegal loggers and President Duterte’s cronies are destroying forests and wildlife. Despite extreme mortal danger, a small…

The metropolis of Hong Kong underwent an unprecedented social-political upheaval in 2019. Facing disillusionment, persecution and exodus, the plight of today’s youth echoes that of…

Set in the North of Vietnam, Children of the Mist is a film about the holy time of childhood and its disappearance. Di, a 13-year-old…

The late 1960s. Nana cannot escape her past. Poverty-stricken, having lost her family to the war in West Java, she marries again and begins a…

Didar is a poet chained to a day job in a small newspaper. In the age of mass consumption, very few care about poetry. Reflecting…

On an impulse to reconnect with her origins, Freddie, 25, returns to South Korea for the first time, where she was born before being adopted…

Having become an amnesiac old man, Zarlyk returns to his homeland after twenty-three years of ordeals in a foreign land. Events take place in a…

Lieutenant Hermes Papauran, one of the best investigators in the Philippines, has reached a deep moral crossroad. As a member of the police force, he…

Born in 1986 in Iran, from Kurdish region of Ilam, he studied acting at Haft Honar Cultural Institute of Karaj. He has performed in more…

Vahid Jalilvand was born in Tehran in 1976. He is a graduate of Tehran University in Theater Directing. Jalilvand started his career as a theater…

Farha is a 14 year-old Palestinian girl who lives in a village where girls her age are traditionally married or spoken for. Yet Farha wants…

Tamer is a Palestinian teenager living in Israel. He and his friends lead a typical high school student’s life until the arrival of the beautiful…

Brothers As’ad (12) and Taha (28) barely scrape a living as rubbish pickers in ‘Hanging Gardens’ – the local nickname for Baghdad’s smouldering dumps –…

A schoolboy who lives in rural Panjab encounters impotence and is misunderstood by society as gay. He is left with a choice that no one…

With problems on the home front, 16-year-old Murra is on the verge of lashing out. That is, until her policeman uncle averts her self-destructive behaviour…

Inspired by actual events, Muru is the story of a local Police Sergeant ‘Taffy’ Tāwharau (Cliff Curtis), who must choose between his badge and his…

After graduating in audiovisual studies from the University of Beirut, she directed adverts and musicvideos that frequently won awards. In 2004, she embarked on a…

Having become an amnesiac old man, Zarlyk returns to his homeland after twenty-three years of ordeals in a foreign land. Events take place in a…