17th Asia Pacific Screen Awards

The 17th Asia Pacific Screen Awards, presented by UNESCO, FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Associations) and the Brisbane City Council, took 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.^[1]

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 awards	April (2)
Most nominations	All We Imagine as Light & April (5)
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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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced on 16 October 2024.^[4] The winners are listed first and in bold.^[5]

Best Film April () Directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili Produced by David Zerat, Ilan Amouyal, Luca Guadagnino, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Archil Gelovani, Gabriele Moratti, Alexandra Rossi All We Imagine as Light () Directed by Payal Kapadia Produced by Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff Desert of Namibia () Directed by Yôko Yamanaka Produced by Keisuke Konishi Happyend () Directed by Neo Sora Produced by Albert Tholen, Aiko Masubuchi, Eric Nyari, Alex C Lo, Anthony Chen To Kill a Mongolian Horse () Directed by Xiaoxuan Jiang Produced by Zhulin Mo	Best Director Tato Kotetishvili – Holy Electricity Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light Dea Kulumbegashvili – April Rithy Panh – Meeting with Pol Pot Xiaoxuan Jiang – To Kill a Mongolian Horse
Best Performance Ia Sukhitashvili as Nina in April Kani Kusruti as Prabha in All We Imagine as Light 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 The Missing – Carl Joseph Papa, Geo Lomuntad, Dan Villegas (Philippines) 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)	Best Documentary Film No Other Land – Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning (Palestine, Norway) 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) 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 Hesitation Wound – Selman Nacar All We Imagine as Light – Payal Kapadia April – Dea Kulumbegashvili Happyend – Neo Sora The Adamant Girl – PS Vinothraj	Best Cinematography Mongrel – Michaël Capron All We Imagine as Light – Ranabir Das April – Arseni Khachaturan Stranger Eyes – Hideho Urata Viet and Nam – Son Doan
Best New Performance Data Chachua as Sandro in Panopticon	Jury Grand Prize All We Imagine as Light
Young Cinema Award Neo Sora for Happyend	FIAPF Award Cliff Curtis
Cultural Diversity Award Shambhala – Min Bahadur Bham