Betulim
Maor Zagouri
Israel. 2022. 120 min
A coming-of-age story of a boy whose mother dies the year he discovers his own sexuality. A story of guilt and regret that a sensitive teenager carries through a journey to lose his virginity.
Set against the hypnotic desert landscapes, he is swept up in an erotic discovery and must bid goodbye to his childhood. An intimate journey, saturated with fear and lust, of one boy’s path to manhood.
Danny Goes Aum
Sandeep Mohan
India. 2022. 103 min
A spiritual and emotional journey of a burned out British video editor Danny, as he travels to the same beach town in Goa (India) where his hippie parents had met back in the 70’s during the heydays of hippiedom.
Continue reading Danny Goes Aum (Sandeep Mohan) IndiaThe Good News
Danish Renzu
India. 2022. 10 min
Set against the backdrop of conflict-driven valley of Kashmir, the lives of two friends tragically intertwine over conflict and identity.
Continue reading The Good News (Danish Renzu) IndiaGeru Patra
Shristipal Singh
India. 2022. 21 min
Geru Patra tells the story of a 27-year- old typist, who sits outside the collectorate’s office . One day, his typewriter is taken under police custody as a letter containing information about an uprising is belived to have been written on it . Will he be able to explain and justify the real motive behind writing the letter and prove himself and his typewriter innocent ?
Continue reading Geru Patra (Shristipal Singh) IndiaLast Supper
Ferzin Taheri
Iran. 2022. 16 min
A religious man makes a deal with a murderer. He thinks he could use darkness for his purpose, but he didn’t know that when you deal with darkness you became part of it.
Continue reading Last Supper (Farzin Taheri) IranBangla Surf Girls
Elizabeth D Costa
Canada, Bangladesh. 2021. 86 min
Shobe, Aisha and Suma break away from the drudgery of their lives by joining a surf club in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The girls fight family pressure and social judgement, for a few hours on the waves each day and gain confidence as their natural skill and prowess gains attention and praise. The joy and freedom of the waves are a stark change from the abuse and hardship they face at home. Soon they are poised to make history as Bangladesh’s first women surfers. However the fate of the club itself hangs on the leadership of the coach who has his own challenges. The odds stack up but the girls refuse to give up. .Balancing the freedom of the waves with the restrictive realities of their circumstances, we experience the thrill and struggle of coming-of-age in a developing country.
Continue reading Bangla Surf Girls (Elizabeth D Costa) Canada, BangladeshCold as Marble
Asif Rustamov
Azerbaijan. 2022. 88 min
On Either Sides of The Pond
Parth Saurabh
India. 2022. 105 min
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.
Continue reading Mohsen Makhmalbaf, President of Jury at Imagineindia 2023BEST 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
BEST SOUTH ASIAN DOCUMENTARY
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
RECOGNITION TO AN INSTITUTION
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