# 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards

The 15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards was held on 11 November 2022 at the Home of the Arts, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

## Jury

The juries are composed of:

### International jury

* Guneet Monga, Indian film producer
* Mohamed Hefzy, Egyptian screenwriter and producer
* Numan Acar, German-Turkish actor and producer
* Sophie Hyde, Australian film director
* Vimukthi Jayasundara, Sri Lankan filmmaker and critic

### International nominations council

* Hong-joon Kim, director of Korean Film Archive and a professor emeritus at Korea National University of Arts
* Anne Démy-Geroe, Australian film curator and lecturer
* Anderson Le, artistic director of Hawaii International Film Festival
* Beena Paul, Indian film editor
* Delphine Garde-Mroueh, film curator and researcher
* Gulnara Abikeyeva, Kazakh film critic and researcher
* Kiki Fung, programmer of Hong Kong International Film Festival

### Youth, Animation, Documentary international jury

* Baby Ruth Villarama, Filipino documentarian and writer
* Shin Su-won, South Korean director and screenwriter
* Zhao Qi, Chinese documentary filmmaker
* Tearepa Kahi, New Zealand director

### Youth, Animation, Documentary nominations council

* Meenakshi Shedde, Indian film curator
* Carl Joseph Papa, Filipino animation filmmaker
* Faramarz K-Rahber, Iranian-Australian filmmaker

## Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced on 12 October 2022.
* Winners denoted in boldface and with ‡
| Best Film Before, Now & Then – Kamila Andini ‡ Poet – Darezhan Omirbaev Return to Seoul – Davy Chou This Is What I Remember – Aktan Arym Kubat When the Waves Are Gone – Lav Diaz | Best Director Davy Chou – Return to Seoul ‡ Kamila Andini – Before, Now & Then Lav Diaz – When the Waves Are Gone Ameer Fakher Eldin – The Stranger Shin Su-won – Hommage |
| Best Performance Lee Jung-eun – Hommage as Ji-wan ‡ John Lloyd Cruz – When the Waves Are Gone as Hermes Papauran Aktan Arym Kubat – This Is What I Remember Navid Mohammadzadeh – Beyond the Wall as Ali Happy Salma – Before, Now & Then as Nana | Best Youth Film Farha – Darin J. Sallam ‡ Alam – Firas Khoury Hanging Gardens – Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji Jaggi – Anmol Sidhu Sweet As – Jub Clerc |
| Best Animated Film Aurora's Sunrise – Inna Sahakyan ‡ Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo – Marya Zarif and André Kadi Goodbye, Don Glees! – Atsuko Ishizuka Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish – Lei Lei To the Bright Side – Xiya Lan, Nianze Li, Yi Zhao, Kun Yu, Gaoxiang Liu, Maoning Liu and Chen Chen | Best Documentary Film All That Breathes – Shaunak Sen ‡ Delikado – Karl Malakunas (Special Mention) Blue Island – Chan Tze-woon Children of the Mist – Diem Ha Le Woodgirls – A Duet for a Dream – Azadeh Bizargiti |
| Best Screenplay Makbul Mubarak – Autobiography ‡ Vahid Jalilvand – Beyond the Wall Aktan Arym Kubat and Dalmira Tilepbergenova – This Is What I Remember Darezhan Omirbaev – Poet Park Chan-wook and Jeong Seo-kyeong – Decision to Leave | Best Cinematography Niklas Lindschau – The Stranger ‡ Batara Goempar – Before, Now & Then Florent Herry – Snow and the Bear Lv Songye – One and Four Boris Troshev – Poet |
| Best New Performance Park Ji-min – Return to Seoul‡ | Jury Grand Prize This Is What I Remember – Aktan Arym Kubat, Altynai Koichumanova, Denis Vaslin, Yuji Sadai, Carine Chichkowsky and Fleur Knopperts ‡ |
| Cultural Diversity Award (under the patronage of UNESCO) Muru – Tearepa Kahi ‡ | Young Cinema Award (in partnership with NETPAC and Griffith Film School) Saim Sadiq for Joyland ‡ |
| FIAPF Award Nadine Labaki ‡ |