17th Asia Pacific Screen Awards

17th Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in cinema and performance in Asia Pacific region
Awarded by	Asia Pacific Screen Academy
Presented by	UNESCO FIAPF
Date	30 November 2024 (2024-11-30)
Site	Home of the Arts, Gold Coast, Australia
Official website	www.asiapacificscreenawards.com
Highlights
Most nominations	All We Imagine as Light & April (5)

The 17th Asia Pacific Screen Awards, presented by UNESCO, FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations) and the Brisbane City Council, is scheduled to take place on 30 November 2024 at the Home of the Arts, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, to recognize the best in cinema of the Asia Pacific Region of 2024.

The nominations were announced on 16 October 2024. The most nominated films were All We Imagine as Light, a co-production between France, India, Netherlands and Luxembourg, directed by Payal Kapadia, and April, a co-production between Georgia, Italy and France, directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili, with both films being up for five awards each.

For the first time since the inception of the category, the non-gendered award for Best Performance consisted of only female performers. Similarly, four out of the five nominees for Best Director are female filmmakers.

Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced on 16 October 2024. The winners will be listed first and in bold.

Best Film All We Imagine as Light – Payal Kapadia, Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff (France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg) April – Dea Kulumbegashvili, Ilan Amouyal, Archil Gelovani, Luca Guadagnino, Gabriele Moratti, Alexandra Rossi, David Zerat (Georgia, Italy, France) Desert of Namibia – Yoko Yamanaka, Keisuke Konishi (Japan) Happyend – Neo Sora, Albert Tholen, Aiko Masubuchi, Eric Nyari, Alex C Lo, Anthony Chen (Japan, United States) To Kill a Mongolian Horse – Xiaoxuan Jiang, Zhulin Mo (Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, United States)	Best Director Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light Dea Kulumbegashvili – April Tato Kotetishvili – Holy Electricity Rithy Panh – Meeting with Pol Pot Xiaoxuan Jiang – To Kill a Mongolian Horse
Best Performance Kani Kusruti as Prabha in All We Imagine as Light Ia Sukhitashvili as Nina in April Yuumi Kawai as Kana in Desert of Namibia Madina Akylbekova as Madina in Madina Soheila Golestani as Najmeh in The Seed of the Sacred Fig	Best Youth Film Boong – Lakshmipriya Devi, Alan McAlex, Vikesh Bhutani, Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar, Shujaat Saudagar (India) Magic Beach – Robert Connolly, Emma Kelly, Susan Danta, Lee Whitmore, Anthony Lucas, Kathy Sarpi, Eddie White, Simon Rippingale, Pierce Davison, Marieka Walsh, Susie Shapones, Jake Duczynski, Liz Kearney, Kate Laurie, Chloé Brugalé (Australia) She Sat There Like All Ordinary Ones – Qu Youjia, Meng Xie, Xianjian Wu (China) Sunshine – Antoinette Jadaone, Geo Lomuntad, Dan Villegas, Bianca Balbuena (Philippines) The Mountain – Rachel House, Desray Armstrong, Morgan Waru (New Zealand)
Best Animated Film Ghost Cat Anzu – Yoko Kuno, Nobuhiro Yamashita, Keiichi Kondo, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Hiroyuki Negishi (Japan, France) Memoir of a Snail – Adam Elliot, Liz Kearney (Australia) Pig That Survived Foot-and-Mouth Disease – Hur Bum-wook, Cho Heaseung (South Korea) The Colors Within – Naoko Yamada, Eunyoung Choi, Yoshihiro Furusawa, Genki Kawamura, Wakana Okamura, Kohei Sakita (Japan) The Missing – Carl Joseph Papa, Geo Lomuntad, Dan Villegas (Philippines)	Best Documentary Film Breaking the Cycle – Aekaphong Saransate, Thanakrit Duangmaneeporn, Komtouch Napattaloong, Tanwarat Sombatwattana (Thailand) Kamay – Ilyas Yourish, Shahrokh Bikaran, Hanne Phlypo, Evelien De Graef (Afghanistan, Belgium, France, Germany) No Other Land – Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning (Palestine, Norway) XiXi – Fan Wu, Venice De Castro Atienza, Sona Jo, Yoonsoo Her (Taiwan, Philippines, South Korea) Youth (Homecoming) – Wang Bing, Sonia Buchman, Mao Hui, Nicolas R De La Mothe, Vincent Wang (France, Luxembourg, Netherlands)
Best Screenplay All We Imagine as Light – Payal Kapadia April – Dea Kulumbegashvili Happyend – Neo Sora Hesitation Wound – Selman Nacar The Adamant Girl – PS Vinothraj	Best Cinematography All We Imagine as Light – Ranabir Das April – Arseni Khachaturan Mongrel – Michaël Capron Stranger Eyes – Hideho Urata Viet and Nam – Son Doan
Best New Performance To be announced	Jury Grand Prize To be announced
Young Cinema Award To be announced	FIAPF Award To be announced
Cultural Diversity Award To be announced

External links

• Official website