Inna Sahakyan and Vardan Hovhannisyan and Christian Beetz and Justé Michailinaité and Kestutis Drazdauskas and Eric Esrailian
Best Animated Film, 2022

Inna Sahakyan and Vardan Hovhannisyan and Christian Beetz and Justé Michailinaité and Kestutis Drazdauskas and Eric Esrailian

Best Animated Film, 2022

Inna Sahakyan and Vardan Hovhannisyan and Christian Beetz and Justé Michailinaité and Kestutis Drazdauskas and Eric Esrailian

Aurora’s Sunrise

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…

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Marya Zarif and André Kadi and Judith Beauregard
Best Animated Film, 2022

Marya Zarif and André Kadi and Judith Beauregard

Best Animated Film, 2022

Marya Zarif and André Kadi and Judith Beauregard

Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo (Dounia et la princesse d’Alep)

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…

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Atsuko Ishizuka and Kenji Nakamoto and Sho Tanaka
Best Animated Film, 2022

Atsuko Ishizuka and Kenji Nakamoto and Sho Tanaka

Best Animated Film, 2022

Atsuko Ishizuka and Kenji Nakamoto and Sho Tanaka

Goodbye, Don Glees! (Gubbai, Don Gurîzu!)

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…

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Lei Lei and Isabelle Glachant
Best Animated Film, 2022

Lei Lei and Isabelle Glachant

Best Animated Film, 2022

Lei Lei and Isabelle Glachant

Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish

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…

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Chen Chen and Liu Maoning and Liu Gaoxiang and Yu Kun and Zhao Yi and Li Nianze and Lan Xiya and Wang Lei
Best Animated Film, 2022

Chen Chen and Liu Maoning and Liu Gaoxiang and Yu Kun and Zhao Yi and Li Nianze and Lan Xiya and Wang Lei

Best Animated Film, 2022

Chen Chen and Liu Maoning and Liu Gaoxiang and Yu Kun and Zhao Yi and Li Nianze and Lan Xiya and Wang Lei

To The Bright Side (Xiang zhe ming liang na fang)

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…

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Niklas Lindschau
Best Cinematography, 2022

Niklas Lindschau

Best Cinematography, 2022

Niklas Lindschau

The Stranger (Al Garib)
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Batara Goempar for Before, Now & Then (Nana)
Best Cinematography, 2022

Batara Goempar for Before, Now & Then (Nana)

Best Cinematography, 2022

Batara Goempar for Before, Now & Then (Nana)

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Boris Troshev
Best Cinematography, 2022

Boris Troshev

Best Cinematography, 2022

Boris Troshev

Poet (Akyn)
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Florent Herry for Snow and the Bear (Kar ve Ayı)
Best Cinematography, 2022

Florent Herry for Snow and the Bear (Kar ve Ayı)

Best Cinematography, 2022

Florent Herry for Snow and the Bear (Kar ve Ayı)

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Lv Songye
Best Cinematography, 2022

Lv Songye

Best Cinematography, 2022

Lv Songye

One and Four (Yige he sige)
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Davy Chou for Return to Seoul (Retour à Séoul)
Best Director, 2022

Davy Chou for Return to Seoul (Retour à Séoul)

Best Director, 2022

Davy Chou for Return to Seoul (Retour à Séoul)

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…

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Ameer Fakher Eldin
Best Director, 2022

Ameer Fakher Eldin

Best Director, 2022

Ameer Fakher Eldin

The Stranger (Al Garib)

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…

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Kamila Andini
Best Director, 2022

Kamila Andini

Best Director, 2022

Kamila Andini

Before, Now & Then (Nana)

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…

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Lav Diaz
Best Director, 2022

Lav Diaz

Best Director, 2022

Lav Diaz

When the Waves are Gone (Kapag Wala Nang Mga Alon)
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Shin Su-won for Hommage (Omaju)
Best Director, 2022

Shin Su-won for Hommage (Omaju)

Best Director, 2022

Shin Su-won for Hommage (Omaju)

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…

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Shaunak Sen and Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer
Best Documentary Film, 2022

Shaunak Sen and Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer

Best Documentary Film, 2022

Shaunak Sen and Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer

All That Breathes

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…

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Karl Malakunas and Marty Syjuco and Michael Collins and Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala
Best Documentary Film, 2022

Karl Malakunas and Marty Syjuco and Michael Collins and Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala

Best Documentary Film, 2022

Karl Malakunas and Marty Syjuco and Michael Collins and Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala

Delikado

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…

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Chan Tze-woon and Peter Yam
Best Documentary Film, 2022

Chan Tze-woon and Peter Yam

Best Documentary Film, 2022

Chan Tze-woon and Peter Yam

Blue Island

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…

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Hà Lệ Diễm and Tran Phuong Thao and Swann Dubus
Best Documentary Film, 2022

Hà Lệ Diễm and Tran Phuong Thao and Swann Dubus

Best Documentary Film, 2022

Hà Lệ Diễm and Tran Phuong Thao and Swann Dubus

Children of the Mist

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…

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Kamila Andini and Gita Fara and Ifa Isfansyah
Best Film, 2022

Kamila Andini and Gita Fara and Ifa Isfansyah

Best Film, 2022

Kamila Andini and Gita Fara and Ifa Isfansyah

Before, Now & Then (Nana)

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…

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Darezhan Omirbayev and Julia Kim
Best Film, 2022

Darezhan Omirbayev and Julia Kim

Best Film, 2022

Darezhan Omirbayev and Julia Kim

Poet (Akyn)

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…

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Davy Chou and Katia Khazak and Charlotte Vincent
Best Film, 2022

Davy Chou and Katia Khazak and Charlotte Vincent

Best Film, 2022

Davy Chou and Katia Khazak and Charlotte Vincent

Return to Seoul (Retour à Séoul)

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…

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Aktan Arym Kubat and Denis Vaslin and Yuji Sadai and Altynai Koichumanova and Carine Chichkowsky and Fleur Knopperts
Best Film, 2022

Aktan Arym Kubat and Denis Vaslin and Yuji Sadai and Altynai Koichumanova and Carine Chichkowsky and Fleur Knopperts

Best Film, 2022

Aktan Arym Kubat and Denis Vaslin and Yuji Sadai and Altynai Koichumanova and Carine Chichkowsky and Fleur Knopperts

This is What I Remember (Esimde)

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…

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Lav Diaz and Bianca Balbuena and Bradley Liew and Jean-Christophe Simon and Joaquim Sapinho and Marta Alves
Best Film, 2022

Lav Diaz and Bianca Balbuena and Bradley Liew and Jean-Christophe Simon and Joaquim Sapinho and Marta Alves

Best Film, 2022

Lav Diaz and Bianca Balbuena and Bradley Liew and Jean-Christophe Simon and Joaquim Sapinho and Marta Alves

When the Waves are Gone (Kapag Wala Nang Mga Alon)

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…

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Park Ji-min
Best New Performance, 2022

Park Ji-min

Best New Performance, 2022

Park Ji-min

Return to Seoul (Retour à Séoul)
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Lee Jeong-eun
Best Performance, 2022

Lee Jeong-eun

Best Performance, 2022

Lee Jeong-eun

Hommage (Omaju)
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Aktan Arym Kubat
Best Performance, 2022

Aktan Arym Kubat

Best Performance, 2022

Aktan Arym Kubat

This is What I Remember (Esimde)
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Happy Salma
Best Performance, 2022

Happy Salma

Best Performance, 2022

Happy Salma

Before, Now & Then (Nana)
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John Lloyd Cruz
Best Performance, 2022

John Lloyd Cruz

Best Performance, 2022

John Lloyd Cruz

When the Waves are Gone (Kapag Wala Nang Mga Alon)
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Navid Mohammadzadeh
Best Performance, 2022

Navid Mohammadzadeh

Best Performance, 2022

Navid Mohammadzadeh

Beyond the Wall (Shab, Dkheli, Divar)

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…

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Makbul Mubarak
Best Screenplay, 2022

Makbul Mubarak

Best Screenplay, 2022

Makbul Mubarak

Autobiography
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Aktan Arym Kubat and Dalmira Tilepbergenova
Best Screenplay, 2022

Aktan Arym Kubat and Dalmira Tilepbergenova

Best Screenplay, 2022

Aktan Arym Kubat and Dalmira Tilepbergenova

This is What I Remember (Esimde)
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Darezhan Omirbayev
Best Screenplay, 2022

Darezhan Omirbayev

Best Screenplay, 2022

Darezhan Omirbayev

Poet (Akyn)
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Park Chan-wook and Chung Seo-kyeong
Best Screenplay, 2022

Park Chan-wook and Chung Seo-kyeong

Best Screenplay, 2022

Park Chan-wook and Chung Seo-kyeong

Decision to Leave (Heojil kyolshim)
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Vahid Jalilvand
Best Screenplay, 2022

Vahid Jalilvand

Best Screenplay, 2022

Vahid Jalilvand

Beyond the Wall (Shab, Dkheli, Divar)

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…

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Darin J Sallam and Deema Azar and Ayah Jardaneh
Best Youth Film, 2022

Darin J Sallam and Deema Azar and Ayah Jardaneh

Best Youth Film, 2022

Darin J Sallam and Deema Azar and Ayah Jardaneh

Farha

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…

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Firas Khoury and Marie-Pierre Macia and Naomie Lagadec and Clare Gadéa
Best Youth Film, 2022

Firas Khoury and Marie-Pierre Macia and Naomie Lagadec and Clare Gadéa

Best Youth Film, 2022

Firas Khoury and Marie-Pierre Macia and Naomie Lagadec and Clare Gadéa

Alam

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…

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Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji and Huda Al Kadhimi and Margaret Glover and May Odeh
Best Youth Film, 2022

Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji and Huda Al Kadhimi and Margaret Glover and May Odeh

Best Youth Film, 2022

Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji and Huda Al Kadhimi and Margaret Glover and May Odeh

Hanging Gardens (Janain mualaqa)

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 –…

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Anmol Sidhu and Pardeep Taina and Dhruv Bakshi
Best Youth Film, 2022

Anmol Sidhu and Pardeep Taina and Dhruv Bakshi

Best Youth Film, 2022

Anmol Sidhu and Pardeep Taina and Dhruv Bakshi

Jaggi

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…

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Jub Clerc and Liz Kearney
Best Youth Film, 2022

Jub Clerc and Liz Kearney

Best Youth Film, 2022

Jub Clerc and Liz Kearney

Sweet As

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…

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Muru
Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO, 2022

Muru

Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO, 2022

Muru

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…

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Nadine Labaki
FIAPF Award, 2022

Nadine Labaki

FIAPF Award, 2022

Nadine Labaki

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…

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Aktan Arym Kubat and Denis Vaslin and Yuji Sadai and Altynai Koichumanova and Carine Chichkowsky and Fleur Knopperts
Jury Grand Prize, 2022

Aktan Arym Kubat and Denis Vaslin and Yuji Sadai and Altynai Koichumanova and Carine Chichkowsky and Fleur Knopperts

Jury Grand Prize, 2022

Aktan Arym Kubat and Denis Vaslin and Yuji Sadai and Altynai Koichumanova and Carine Chichkowsky and Fleur Knopperts

This is What I Remember (Esimde)

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…

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Saim Sadiq for Joyland
Young Cinema Award, 2022

Saim Sadiq for Joyland

Young Cinema Award, 2022

Saim Sadiq for Joyland

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