APSA Nominees & Winners

Eleven-year-old Karin is abandoned by her father at the house of her grandfather, the monk of a small town in the Japanese countryside. Her grandfather…

Grace Pudel, a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books, retells her life story to a humble…

Having survived foot-and-mouth disease only on willpower, Pig H swears that he must become human in order not to die as trash. He is ready…

Synesthete Totsuko can see others as colours. Honours student Kimi has dropped out of school but still pretends to attend for her grandmother’s sake. They…

Eric lives a rather normal life as an animator in the Philippines. But one thing extraordinary about him is his lack of a mouth. One…

Arseni Khachaturan is a cinematographer based in New York. He was born in Minsk, Belarus, and was invested in arts from a young age, experimenting…

Hideho Urata is a cinematographer based in Singapore, originally from Japan, He embarked on his career in the United States, where he honed his skills…

Michaël Capron is a cinematographer based in Paris. He studied cinematography at La Fémis, the French national film school. Graduating in 2010, he shot several…

Ranabir Das is a cinematographer based in Mumbai. He graduated from the Film and Television Institute of India. His first feature film as a cinematographer,…

Born in 1984, Son Doan began working on film sets in 2012 after studying cinematography at INSAS in Brussels. In 2017, he shot Meryem Ben m’Barek’s…

Dea Kulumbegashvili is Georgian writer-director based in Tbilisi. Her debut short film Invisible Spaces was nominated for a Palme d’Or du Court Métrage at the…

Payal Kapadia is a Mumbai-based filmmaker. She studied film direction at the Film and Television Institute of India. Her short films Afternoon Clouds and And What Is The Summer Saying…