APSA Nominees & Winners

Gorka Gómez Andreu is a Spanish cinematographer with more than 12 international cinematography awards to his name. He is a graduate of Audiovisual Journalism, Universidad…

Jay Oza comes from a diverse background in cinematography and completed his film studies at Prague Film School in 2008. His eclectic body of work…

Kaili Blues (2015) is amazingly Wang Tainxing’s debut work as cinematographer. His attention to detail, storytelling and arresting images complement director Bi Gan’s fluid and poetic…

Anurag Kashyap is one of India’s most prolific and influential filmmakers of modern times and has had roles as director, producer, writer and actor across…

Bi Gan is a filmmaker and poet, hailed as one to watch following the 2015 premiere of his first feature Kaili Blues. Born in 1989, his…

Lee Joon-ik is one of South Korea’s most successful film directors and producers. His 2005 smash-hit The King and the Clown was seen by 12.3 million people,…

Zeki Demirkubuz is a prolific film director and screenwriter from Isparta, Turkey. After graduating from the Istanbul University, Faculty of Communications, he began his film…

An action-packed adventure full of swordplay and dynamic animation that sweeps viewers back over a thousand years to the story of Bilal ibn Rabah, taken…

A spirited meditation on terminal illness, Manang Biring is a comedy-drama featuring a feisty old lady who has learned to accept her imminent demise, until…

Savva lives in a small village in the forest, once protected by regal white wolves, but now easy prey for a gang of ruthless hyenas.…

In a magical faraway land, a flock of sheep are settled in a picturesque village nestled among green meadows and rolling hills. Their carefree life…

Having disappeared from home, rumour had it that Midi Z’s older brother had found a piece of valuable jade in the paradise of Myanmar’s jade…

Exile endeavours to recreate and make sense of the experience of those thrown out of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh with the arrival of Pol…

One of Australia’s greatest photojournalists takes the audience on a riveting first-hand journey through an Afghanistan rarely seen on the news. In Snow Monkey, George…

This is a film supposedly about the perfect life in an ideal country – North Korea. An eight-year-old girl is studying in an ideal school,…

The strict and traditional Mr Azizi works in an oil refinery, but at home his word is law. So it comes as a shock when,…

When Emine’s husband, Cemal, disappears to Romania in search of work, she finds herself on her own with a sick child in urgent need of…

The Prophet Muhammad’s life story unfolds in this sweeping historical epic, the eleventh feature film from master filmmaker Majid Majidi who consulted some 40 Koranic…

Veniamin, a teenager in the midst of a religious awakening, has his mother, schoolmates and entire high school turned upside down by his questions. Can…

After rising to fame on UK television, Dev Patel catapulted to worldwide success in 2009 when he starred in the Academy Award®-winning Slumdog Millionaire. He received rave…

Farhad Aslani is an acclaimed Iranian actor known for his distinct roles in film and television, playing characters as diverse as a vicious murderer or…

Song Kang-ho is a Korean acting superstar with an award-winning career spanning a diverse range of roles and four Korean Grand Bell Awards to his…

Russian actress Agrippina Steklova is well-known to audiences for her many roles across 15 years of Russian films and television. Her feature lead debut in…

Aslihan Gürbüz is a diverse Istanbul-born Turkish actress and a graduate of Konya Selcuk University State Conservatory of Theatre Arts. Gürbüz is well known in…

Natalia Pavlenkova is an acclaimed and much-loved Russian theatre actress, with an outstanding on-stage career since 1979 who currently works at the Stanislavsky Theater in…

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2016 Youn Yuh-jung is a South Korean actress who has had a remarkable, broad-ranging and bold career spanning nearly 40 years…

Gurvinder Singh is a highly-esteemed Punjabi filmmaker, artist, documentarian and writer who, as the child of migrants forced out of West Punjab at the time…

Leena Yadav is a multi-talented writer, director, producer and editor who is part of an exciting new generation of Indian filmmakers. She has directed over…

Iranian screenwriter Mehran Kashani has collaborated with acclaimed directors on many award-winning films. Though Kashani graduated university as a mechanical engineer, he moved into film…

Writer and director Yang Chao is a graduate of the Directing Department of the Beijing Film Academy. He wrote and directed his debut 35mm short…

Little Bahar lives a life spun from folklore and stories, always with her head in a book. But growing up in Yazd in the 1970s…

Farmer Arjun’s love and concern for his irrepressible son, Abhimanyu, motivates him to earn the money needed to buy back his ancestral land, lost to…

Orphaned eight year-old Kuttappayi lives with his kindly, weather-worn grandfather Valiyappachayi in the spectacular Kerala backwaters of Southern India where they raise flocks of ducks.…

Wolf and Sheep is the debut feature film of young Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat. Through the lives of shepherd children, the film portrays the society…

When a young man kills his cousin in an accident he is overcome with guilt and, in his grief, commits suicide. His father Ignat, a…

A celebration of the irrepressibility of the human spirit in the face of hardship, set in a Northern Turkish village. High in the mountains Mehmet barely…

In the fading grandeur of downtown Cairo, Khalid, a 35-year-old filmmaker, is struggling to make a film that captures the pulse of his city at…

A rare glimpse in to the tranquil, spiritual lives of Islamic devotion of the Hui people, a little-known Chinese Muslim community in a remote northwest…