Timofey Lobov and Pyotr Dukhovskoy
Achievement in Cinematography, 2017

Timofey Lobov and Pyotr Dukhovskoy

Achievement in Cinematography, 2017

Timofey Lobov and Pyotr Dukhovskoy

The Bottomless Bag (Meshok Bez Dna)

Winner, Achievement in Cinematography, 2017 Timofey Lobov graduated from the Russian State University of Cinematography, VGIK, in 2011, under the tutelage of the late great…

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Andrey Zvyagintsev
Achievement in Directing, 2017

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Achievement in Directing, 2017

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Loveless (Nelyubov)

Winner, Achievement in Directing, 2017 Andrey Zvyagintsev is one of Russia’s most internationally respected directors. His feature directorial debut was The Return (2003), a low-budget…

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Abbas Kiarostami
Artistic Acknowledgement, 2017

24 Frames

Artistic Acknowledgement, 2017

24 Frames

Winner, Artistic Acknowledgement, 2017 For his remarkable vision, the International Nomination Council commends Abbas Kiarostami with a special Artistic Acknowledgement, and the APSA Academy confers a…

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Ann Marie Fleming and Shirley Vercruysse and Michael Fukushima
Best Animated Feature Film, 2017

Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

Best Animated Feature Film, 2017

Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming

Winner, Best Animated Feature Film, 2017 Rosie Ming is a young Canadian poet who lives at home with her over-protective Chinese immigrant grandparents and has…

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Søren Steen Jespersen and Kareem Abeed and Stefan Kloos and Feras Fayyad
Best Documentary Feature Film, 2017

Last Men in Aleppo

Best Documentary Feature Film, 2017

Last Men in Aleppo

Winner, Best Documentary Feature Film, 2017 After five years of war in Syria, the remaining citizens of Aleppo continue to live under siege. We experience…

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David Jowsey and Greer Simpkin and David Tranter and Warwick Thornton
Best Feature Film, 2017

Sweet Country

Best Feature Film, 2017

Sweet Country

Winner, Best Feature Film, 2017 Inspired by real events, Sweet Country is a period western set in the uncompromising outback of the Northern Territory, Australia…

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Rajkummar Rao
Best Performance by an Actor, 2017

Rajkummar Rao

Best Performance by an Actor, 2017

Rajkummar Rao

Newton

Winner, Best Performance by an Actor, 2017 Rajkummar Rao’s breakthrough role came in the 2013 Hindi drama film Kai Po Che directed by Abhishek Kapoor,…

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Nata Murvanidze
Best Performance by an Actress, 2017

Nata Murvanidze

Best Performance by an Actress, 2017

Nata Murvanidze

Scary Mother (Sashishi Deda)

Winner, Best Performance by an Actress, 2017 The descendant of a prominent Georgian family of artists, thespians, and filmmakers, Nata Murvanidze began her career as…

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Mayank Tewari and Amit V Masurkar
Best Screenplay, 2017

Mayank Tewari and Amit V Masurkar

Best Screenplay, 2017

Mayank Tewari and Amit V Masurkar

Newton

Winner, Best Screenplay, 2017 Mayank Tawari is a former reporter, Mumbai-based columnist and screenwriter. Newton is Maynak Tewari’s second feature as a screenwriter following his debut Ragini MMS in 2011.…

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Gita Fara and Kamila Andini and Ifa Isfansyah
Best Youth Feature Film, 2017

The Seen and Unseen (Sekala Niskala)

Best Youth Feature Film, 2017

The Seen and Unseen (Sekala Niskala)

Winner, Best Youth Feature Film, 2017 The director-producer of APSA 2012 Best Children’s Feature Film award winner The Mirror Never Dies returns with The Seen and Unseen, an…

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Mariam Khatchvani and Vladimer Katcharava and Samantha Taylor and Mike Downey and Igor A. Nola and Conrad Alleblas and Jamillah van der Hulst
Cultural Diversity Award, 2017

Dede

Cultural Diversity Award, 2017

Dede

Winner, Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO, 2017 Set in 1992 amid the remote Ushguli community of Georgia’s Svaneti province in the country’s…

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Bianca Balbuena
FIAPF Award, 2017

Bianca Balbuena

FIAPF Award, 2017

Bianca Balbuena

Winner, FIAPF Award, Outstanding Achievement in Film, 2017 Bianca Balbuena is a 30-year old producer, writer, co-founder and CEO of Epicmedia Productions Inc which has…

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Aleksandr Yatsenko
Jury Grand Prize, 2017

Aleksandr Yatsenko

Jury Grand Prize, 2017

Aleksandr Yatsenko

Arrhythmia (Aritmiya)

Aleksandr Yatsenko was born in Volgograd on May 22, 1977. During his years studying pedagogy at the Tambov State University he became an active member of…

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Ana Urushadze
Jury Grand Prize, 2017

Ana Urushadze

Jury Grand Prize, 2017

Ana Urushadze

Scary Mother (Sashishi Deda)

Winner, Jury Grand Prize, 2017 Ana Urushadze hails from Georgia and was born in Tblisi in 1990 and graduated from the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and…

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Ilgar Najaf
Young Cinema Award, 2017

Ilgar Najaf

Young Cinema Award, 2017

Ilgar Najaf

Pomegranate Orchard (Nar Baği)

Winner, Young Cinema Award, 2017 Pomegranate Orchard by Ilgar Najaf not only indicates the rise of Azeri cinema but also reflects the slow changes that Azeri society is undergoing. Competing…

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