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Zhou Qinhan wins Second Best Poster at Imagineindia 2026

25 August, 2026 imagineindia Leave a comment

For the film Raindrops on a Roof.

Graduate of the Directing Department, China Academy of Art | Film and Cross-Media Moving-Image Practice, 2018-2025

PROFILE

Director, screenwriter and moving-image artist working across feature films, shorts, experimental cinema, branded content and game visuals. His practice explores narrative, space, the body and lived experience, as well as the translation of cinematic language across media.

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NEWS, Women,s voices

Shi Renfei wins Best Script at Imagineindia2026

22 August, 2026 imagineindia Leave a comment

For the film The Last Summer.

Shi Renfei is an independent Chinese filmmaker, writer, and director, born in Hefei, Anhui Province. She graduated from the Shanghai Film Academy (Shanghai University) and the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Currently based in Shenzhen, she is dedicated to telling stories that explore the complexity of contemporary Chinese family life and the inner world of young women.

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Documentary Section, NEWS, Women,s voices

Eliza Kubarska wins Best Documentary at Imagineindia 2026

19 August, 2026 imagineindia Leave a comment

She won it for the film THE LAST EXPEDITION.

Eliza Kubarska – a filmmaker and a climber. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts and the Wajda Film School in Warsaw,Poland. Author of award-winning documentaries that have been presented at festivals such as Hot Docs (Canada), Locarno FF, LA Film Festival, IDFA, BFI London, Margaret Mead (NYC). Her films: “What Happened on Pam Island» – a love story from Greenland, «Walking Under Water,» a story of sea Nomads from Borneo, “K2. Touching the Sky” filmed in the Karakoram, “Wall of Shadows», filmed in winter in the Himalayas» one of the most awarded mountain films ever, and “The Last Expedition,” winner of the EAGLE award, the Polish Oscar for Best Documentary in 2024,. She cooperate with ARTE, ZDF, HBO, Max, Amazon.
In her filmmaking, Eliza draws on her experience gained from mountain expeditions to the Karakoram, the Himalayas, Greenland, the High Atlas, Mali, and the jungles of Malaysia and Mexico. In a team with her life partner: alpinist and photographer David Kaszlikowski, she has established several hundred-meter-long routes in difficult-to-access mountain regions.

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NEWS

Jang Yongseok wins Best Poster for Summer´s Camera at Imagineindia

18 August, 2026 imagineindia Leave a comment

I’m Jang Yongseok, a self-employed graphic designer. I run a small studio called Framebuilders in Jeju, South Korea. Most of my work is brand identity and K-pop album design. I worked on IU’s A Flower Bookmark album series. I’ve also made brand identities for the pet food company O’SO TRUE and the plant shop Mulsori.

Summer’s Camera (dir. Divine Sung) was my first film poster. The director asked me because she liked my handwriting. The English title takes up a lot of space, but the letters have a warm shape, so it feels friendly right away. I also made Korean handwriting that looks like Summer, and moved her from the center line of the road onto a tiny blue square. The director and the crew liked these ideas too, and I’m happy we made a poster I love.

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NEWS, Short Films Section, Women,s voices

Forough Azizi wins Best Short at Imagineindia 2026

17 August, 2026 imagineindia Leave a comment

Born: July 18, 1985 – Qaemshahr, Iran

Fatemeh (Forough) Azizi is an Iranian filmmaker and film editor based in Tehran. She holds a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies and has an academic background in social research, which has informed her approach to filmmaking and her interest in exploring social realities through personal and human stories. She is a member of the Iranian Short Film Association (ISFA).

Azizi works primarily in fiction and documentary filmmaking, as well as film editing. Her cinematic interests center on human relationships, social experiences, and questions of gender and identity. Her background in Women’s Studies has contributed to a perspective that pays particular attention to the representation of women and to the ways in which social structures shape individual lives.

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NEWS, Women,s voices

The great Do Thi Hai Yen gets second Best Actress award

14 August, 2026 imagineindia Leave a comment

Do Thi Hai Yen (born 1 October 1982) is a Vietnamese actress. She rose to international fame for her role in Academy Award-nominated film The Quiet American (2002) by Phillip Noyce, which made her the first Asian actress to be nominated for a Satellite Award. For her breakthrough performance in the drama film Story of Pao (2005), Hai Yen won Best Actress awards at the 4th Vietnam Cinema Association’s Golden Kite Awards and 15th Vietnam Film Festival. She gained further acclaim for her performances in Adrift (2009), The Floating Lives (2010) and Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (2015).

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NEWS, Women,s voices

Cui Zhongyu wins Best Actress at Imagineindia 2026

13 August, 2026 imagineindia Leave a comment

Cui Zhongyu is a rising young actress currently pursuing her undergraduate studies in Broadcasting & Hosting at the Communication University of China, one of the country’s most prestigious media institutions. Though still in her early academic years, she has already demonstrated a rare natural talent and emotional depth on screen.

Her film debut came with the independent realistic feature The Last Summer, directed by Shi Renfei. In the film, she plays a complex adolescent character navigating the fragile border between innocence and loss. Despite having no prior professional acting training, Zhongyu immersed herself in the role with remarkable dedication. She spent weeks observing real-life peers in similar environments, keeping a daily character journal, and working closely with the director to build her performance from the inside out.

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Documentary Section

I was in Las Vegas 2 (Javier Castro) Spain

17 July, 2026 imagineindia 1 Comment

I was in Las Vegas 2
Javier Castro
Spain. 2025. 155 min

Music

Village

I Was in Las Vegas 2 is a documentary that reconstructs the incredible story of a legendary nightclub located in a small town in Burgos where legendary bands such as The Ramones or Motörhead came to play. Through real testimonies, emotional memories and a great sense of humor, the film celebrates the passion, music and entrepreneurial spirit that made Las Vegas 2 a unique cultural phenomenon in Spain. A nostalgic, unexpected and vibrant journey to the heart of the emptied Spain… where the impossible happened.

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Varanasi, the Elegance of Chaos (Alfonso Domingo) Spain

16 July, 2026 imagineindia 1 Comment

Varanasi, the Elegance of Chaos
Alfonso Domingo
Spain. 2025. 51 min

Varanasi

Journey

One must visit Varanasi at least once in a lifetime. It is a city that leaves no one indifferent—a symbol and microcosm of India, a land of wonder. We explore the banks of the Ganges and witness the rites of life and death in this sacred city: the cremation grounds, the Nagas (naked ascetics smeared with the ashes of the dead), the snake charmers, and the pilgrims flocking to Shivaratri, the festival of Shiva. In Varanasi, even the chaos fits right in.

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Documentary Section

The Eyes of Ghana (Ben Proudfoot) USA

12 July, 2026 imagineindia 1 Comment

The Eyes of Ghana
Ben Proudfoot
USA. 2025. 90 min

Ghana

Chris Hesse

THE EYES OF GHANA is a stunning feature documentary following 93-year-old documentarian Chris Hesse—personal cinematographer to forgotten African icon Kwame Nkrumah—as he races against blindness and time to rescue and repatriate a secret trove of over 1,000 films that captured the birth of African independence in the fifties and sixties. Yet unseen by the public, these films may not only rewrite Ghanaian and African history—but world history itself.

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