Asian Film Awards 2009

2009 Asian Film Awards
2009 Asian Film Award nominations: Jan. 21, 2009
2009 Asian Film Award winners: March 23, 2009
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

In Kyoshi Kurosawa’s best Asian Film Award winner Tokyo Sonata, a middle-class worker (Teruyuki Kagawa) loses his job (it’s outsourced to China), but can’t get himself to tell his family about his predicament. Slowly, however, both his ruse and the family itself begin to disintegrate.
 

Best Film
Forever Enthralled, China
The Good, the Bad, the Weird, South Korea
Ponyo on the Cliff, Japan
The Rainbow Troops, Indonesia
Red Cliff, China
* Tokyo Sonata, The Netherlands / Japan / Hong Kong
Best Director
FENG Xiao-gang, If You Are the One, China
KIM Jee-woon, The Good, the Bad, the Weird, South Korea
* KOREEDA Hirokazu, Still Walking, Japan
Brillante MENDOZA, Service, [...]

Dubai Film Festival Awards 2008

2008 Dubai Film Festival Awards
2008 Dubai Film Festival: Dec. 11-18, 2008
 

In Lyes Salem’s Masquerades, an arrogant man (played by Salem) living with his family in an Algerian village has one dream: to be respected by those around him. The problem is that he has a sister whom everyone believes will end up a spinster. To resolve the issue, the man tells everyone that he has found a rich suitor for his sister so that preparations for the marriage can begin. But now there’s another problem: where’s the bridegroom? Masquerades is Algeria’s submission for the 2009 best foreign-language film Oscar.

 
MUHR ARABIC
Muhr Arabic Feature – Best Film
MASQUERADES
Director: Lyes Salem
Country: Algeria – France
Muhr Arabic [...]

Tokyo Film Festival Awards 2008

2008 Tokyo Film Festival Awards
2008 Tokyo Film Festival: October 18-26, 2008
 

Set in the arid steppes of Kazakhstan, Sergei Dvortsevoy’s Tulpan chronicles one young man’s struggle to prove himself worthy of a wife. In the meantime, he has to cope with his sister’s family, a reluctant bride-to-be, sand storms, and illness in the family’s sheep herd — all that while listening to "By the Rivers of Babylon" on a falling-apart car radio.
 

Best Film: Tulpan, Sergei Dvortsevoy
Special Jury Prize: Cztery noce z Anna / Four Nights with Anna, Jerzy Skolimowski
Best Actress: Félicité Wouassi, Aide-toi, le ciel t’aidera / With a Little Help from Myself
Best Actor: Vincent Cassel, L’ennemi public n°1 and L’instinct de mort
Best Artistic Contribution [...]