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Indonesian drama Autobiography by Makbul Mubarak has won the best Asian film prize at the Singapore International Film Festival’s Silver Screen Awards while Russian director Marusya Syroechkovskaya’s documentary How To Save A Dead Friend picked up the audience award.
Autobiography premiered in Venice’s Horizons strand in September, where it scooped a Fipresci prize, and has since won further silverware at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Golden Horse Film Festival and Marrakech among others. The debut feature of film critic-turned-director Mubarak is about a young man who...
Indonesian drama Autobiography by Makbul Mubarak has won the best Asian film prize at the Singapore International Film Festival’s Silver Screen Awards while Russian director Marusya Syroechkovskaya’s documentary How To Save A Dead Friend picked up the audience award.
Autobiography premiered in Venice’s Horizons strand in September, where it scooped a Fipresci prize, and has since won further silverware at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Golden Horse Film Festival and Marrakech among others. The debut feature of film critic-turned-director Mubarak is about a young man who...
- 12/5/2022
- by Silvia Wong
- ScreenDaily
Makbul Mubarak’s “Autobiography” has won Best Asian Film, the top prize at the Singapore International Film Festival’s Silver Screen Awards, continuing its award-winning spree.
The film made a winning debut at Venice earlier this year and went on to win prizes at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Golden Horse, Marrakech, QCity, Jogja-netpac, Stockholm and Tokyo Filmex.
The jury, which included filmmakers Lav Diaz, Ritu Sarin and Kim Soyoung and New York Film Festival artistic director Dennis Lim, commended the film’s “control and clarity of vision” and praised it for being a “vivid character study, a powerful allegory of national trauma, an urgent dissection of the fascist mindset and how it persists,” in their citation.
The award comes with a cash prize of SGD8,000 and an online, audio post and Dcp package, audio final mix and Dcp feature worth SGD45,000 from Mocha Chai Laboratories.
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The film made a winning debut at Venice earlier this year and went on to win prizes at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Golden Horse, Marrakech, QCity, Jogja-netpac, Stockholm and Tokyo Filmex.
The jury, which included filmmakers Lav Diaz, Ritu Sarin and Kim Soyoung and New York Film Festival artistic director Dennis Lim, commended the film’s “control and clarity of vision” and praised it for being a “vivid character study, a powerful allegory of national trauma, an urgent dissection of the fascist mindset and how it persists,” in their citation.
The award comes with a cash prize of SGD8,000 and an online, audio post and Dcp package, audio final mix and Dcp feature worth SGD45,000 from Mocha Chai Laboratories.
“We celebrate cinema tonight despite motherfucker Putin,...
- 12/4/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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