Nominees have been announced for the 7th Asia Pacific Screen Awards, the diverse regional cinema showcase that takes place in Brisbane annually.
Australia's multi-directed omnibus The Turning will vie for Best Film against Palestine's tense thriller Omar, Japan's family swap drama Like Father Like Son, Sri Lanka's post-civil war romance With You, or Without You, Bangladesh's story of an ideological standoff between a cleric and a family, Television ,and Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi's French language look at the fallout of a divorce, The Past.
The pan-regional awards were established to promote cultural diversity, and the nominations recognise 39 films from 21 Asia Pacific countries. Among them are films that are their country's entry for the foreign language Oscar (such as Television, Omar, Saudi Arabia's Wadjda).
Elsewhere, Australian films garnered nominations in the Best Actor category (for Mystery Road actor Aaron Pedersen) and Achievement in Cinematography (for Mandy Walker ASC ACS, for Tracks).
The 2013 Asia Pacific Screen Awards ceremony will be held in Brisbane's City Hall on Thursday 12 December.
It is now up to the 2013 APSA International Jury to determine the winners in the feature film categories. Jury President Indian screenwriter/director Shyam Benegal will deliberate with the Jury members: Korean filmmaker Kim Tae-yong, Sri Lankan actress Hon Dr Malani Fonseka, Turkish actor Tamer Levent, Swiss director Christoph Schaub and Hong Kong producer Albert Lee.
The full list of nominees appears below, with links to SBS Film reviews and other coverage of the films.
BEST FEATURE FILM
Like Father, Like Son (Soshite chichi ni naru)
Japan
Produced by Matsuzaki Kaoru, Taguchi Hijiri
Omar
Palestine
Produced by Hany Abu-Assad, Waleed F. Zuaiter, David Gerson
The Past (Le Passé)
France, Italy
Produced by Alexandre Mallet-Guy
Television
Bangladesh
Produced by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Co-Produced by Mahboob Rahman
Australia
Produced by Robert Connolly, Maggie Miles
With You, Without You
Sri Lanka
Produced by Lasantha Navarathna, Mohamed Adamaly
BEST CHILDREN'S FEATURE FILM
Juvenile Offender (Beom-joe So-nyeon)
Republic of Korea
Produced by Park Joo-young
Leaving on the 15th Spring (Tabidachi no Shima Uta - Jugo no Haru)
Japan
Produced by Yasuhiro Masaoka, Hiroshi Higa, Takeshi Sawa
Shopping
New Zealand
Produced by Sarah Shaw, Anna McLeish
Saudi Arabia, Germany
Produced by Roman Paul, Gerhard Meixner
Co-Producer by Amr Alkahtani
When I Saw You (Lamma Shoftak)
Palestine, Jordan
Producer by Ossama Bawardi
Co-Producers by Rami Yasin, Sawsan Asfari, Maya Sanbar Jamo, Tariq Al Ghussein
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
Denmark, Norway, United Kingdom
Produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen, Joram Ten Brink, Christine Cynn, Anne Köhncke, Joshua Oppenheimer, Michael Uwemedimo, anonymous Indonesian producers
Co-Produced by Torstein Grude, Bjarte Mørner Tveit, Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn
The Gatekeepers (Shomrei Hasaf)
Israel, France, Germany, Belgium
Produced by Dror Moreh, Estelle Fialon, Phillipa Kowarsky
Co-Producer by Anna Van der Wee
Menstrual Man
Singapore, India
Produced by Amit Virmani, Seah Kui Luan
No Burqas Behind Bars (Frihet Bakom Galler)
Sweden, Japan, Netherlands, Denmark
Produced by Maryam Ebrahimi
A World Not Ours (Alam Laysa Lana)
Lebanon, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Denmark, Palestine
Producer by Patrick Campbell, Mahdi Fleifel
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
The Fake (Sa-i-bi)
Republic of Korea
Produced by Cho Young-kag
Koo! Kin-Dza-Dza
Russian Federation
Produced by Sergey Selyanov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Yuri Kushnerev, Oleg Urushev, Konstantin Ernst
Patema Inverted (Sakasama no Patema)
Japan
Produced by Mikio Ono
The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu)
Japan
Produced by Toshio Suzuki
The World of Goopi and Bagha (Goopi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya)
India
Produced by Children's Film Society, India
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
Anthony Chen for Ilo Ilo
Singapore
Emir Baigazin for Harmony Lessons (Uroki Garmonii)
Kazakhstan, Germany, France
Hiner Saleem for My Sweet Pepperland
Iraqi Kurdistan, France, Germany
Hirokazu Kore-eda for Like Father, Like Son (Soshite chichi ni naru)
Japan
Shahram Mokri for Fish and Cat (Mahi Va Gorbeh)
Islamic Republic of Iran
BEST SCREENPLAY
Asghar Farhadi for The Past (Le Passé)
France, Italy
Denis Osokin for Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Nebesnye Ženy Lugovykh Mari)
Russian Federation
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Anisul Hoque for Television
Bangladesh
Ritesh Batra for The Lunchbox
India, France, Germany
U-Wei Bin Hajisaari for Almayer's Folly (Hanyut)
Malaysia
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Ehab Assal for Omar
Palestine
Lu Yue for Back to 1942 (Yi Jiu Si Er)
People's Republic of China
Mandy Walker ASC ACS for Tracks
Australia, United Kingdom
Murat Aliyev for The Old Man (Shal)
Kazakhstan
Rajeev Ravi for Monsoon Shootout
India, United Kingdom, Netherlands
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR
Aaron Pedersen in Mystery Road
Australia
Adam Bakri in Omar
Palestine
Lee Byung-hun in Masquerade
Republic of Korea
Tatsuya Nakadai in Japan's Tragedy (Nippon no higeki)
Japan
Yerbolat Toguzakov in The Old Man (Shal)
Kazakhstan
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS
Ayça Damgacı in Yozgat Blues
Turkey, Germany
Golshifteh Farahani in My Sweet Pepperland Iraqi Kurdistan, France, Germany
Negar Javaherian in The Painting Pool
Islamic Republic of Iran
Whirimako Black in White Lies (Tuakiri Huna)
New Zealand
Zhang Ziyi in The Grandmaster (Yi dai zong shi)
Hong Kong (PRC), People's Republic of China
