Mohsen Makhmalbaf, President of Jury at Imagineindia 2023

Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Tehran, Iran, May 29, 1957) is an Iranian filmmaker, writer, scriptwriter, film producer and activist for human rights. He has been president of the Asian Film Academy since 2009 and founded in 1996 the alternative film school “Makhmalbaf Film House” in Tehran, today converted into a production company and brand of the Makhmalbaf family’s productions.

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Awards Imagineindia 2022

BEST FILM

1 – Neighbours (Mano Khalil) Switzerland

2 – Amira (Mohamed Diab) Egypt

2 – Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots (Ryohei Yoshino) Japan

BEST DIRECTOR

1 – Mohamed Diab. Amira (Mohamed Diab) Egypt

2 – Deepa Mehta. Funny Boy (Deepa Mehta) Canada

2 – Ryohei Yoshino. Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots (Ryohei Yoshino) Japan

BEST ACTRESS

1 – Saba Mubarak / Tara Abboud. Amira (Mohamed Diab) Egypt

2 – Yui Sakuma. Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots (Ryohei Yoshino) Japan

2 – Zhang Zimu. The Coffin Painter (Da Fei) China

BEST ACTOR

1 – Lopsang. The Coffin Painter (Da Fei) China

1 – Li Jiu Xiao. Streetwise (Jiazuo Na) China

BEST SCRIPT

1 – Mano Khalil. Neighbours (Mano Khalil) Switzerland

2 – Na Jiazuo. Streetwise (Jiazuo Na) China

BEST DOP

1 – Satya Nagpaul. Crescent Night (Gurvinder Singh) India

2 – Ahmed Gabr. Amira (Mohamed Diab) Egypt

BEST MUSIC

1 – Mario Batkovic. Neighbours (Mano Khalil) Switzerland

2 – Xiao Bohan. The Coffin Painter (Da Fei) China

BEST SOUND DESIGN

1 – 2000 Songs of Farida (Yolkin Tuychiev) Uzbekistan

BEST EDITING

1 – Neighbours (Mano Khalil) Switzerland

2 – Funny Boy (Deepa Mehta) Canada

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

1 – Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots (Ryohei Yoshino) Japan

2 – Amira (Mohamed Diab) Egypt

BEST DOCUMENTARY

1 – Reconstruction of Occupation (Jan Sikl) Czech Republic, Slovakia

2 – My Childhood My Country (Phil Grabsky, Shoaib Sharifi) Great Britain

LIFE AWARD

1 – The Portraits (Bijukumar Damodaran) India

2 – Oliver Black (Tawfik Baba) Morocco

2 – Red Pomegranate (Sharipa Urazbayeva) Kazakhstan

BEST SHORT FILM

1 – Lili Alone (Zou Jing) China

2 – A World Free of Crisis (Ted Hardy-Carnac) France

BEST POSTER

1 – Funny Boy (Deepa Mehta) Canada

2 – Tree Full of Parrots (Jayaraj) India

BEST SPANISH SHORT FILM

1 – On The Second Floor (Marco Araujo) Spain

BEST STUDENT FILM

Bablu Babylon Se (Abhijeet Sarthi) SRFTI. India

SPECIAL MENTIONS TO CHILD ACTORS

Tree Full of Parrots (Jayaraj) India

Neighbours (Mano Khalil) Switzerland

BEST SOUTH ASIAN FEATURE FILM

  • Dostojee (Prasun Chatterjee) India

BEST SOUTH ASIAN DOCUMENTARY

  • Kekee Manzil (Behroze Gandhy, Dilesh Korya) India, United Kingdom

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

  • Ángela Molina (Spain)

RECOGNITION TO AN INSTITUTION

  • SRFTI (India)