08/11/2022 | News

The Chinese film Return to dust, directed by Li Ruijun, has won the award for best feature film in the official section of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona, ​​AFFBCN 2022. This has been decided by the jury of this tenth edition that has been held from 26 October to November 6, and has presented a total of 111 films from around 25 countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

The jury of the official section of the AFFBCN, made up of Rosa Vergés, Briccio Santos, Teodoro Granados, Paco Mulet and Jean Marie del Moral, has awarded this prize to the film Return to dust unanimously and for being “a tribute to nature at a particularly transcendent moment in the face before climatic emergency”. The Iranian Arash Aneessee has received the award for best direction for Maman while the film When Pomegranates Howl by Iranian Granaz Moussavi has won the award for best screenplay. This jury has also awarded a special mention to “Sardar Udham” by the Indian director Shoojit Sircar, whose feature film that opened this year’s Festival.

The AFFBCN 2022 has awarded 11 more prizes for the rest of the competition sections: Official Panorama, Discoveries, Netpac and Special, all of them in competition.

Once the prizes have been awarded, the film The Drover’s Wife: Legend of Molly Johnson by Australian director Leah Purcell has closed the tenth edition of the Asian Film Festival Barcelona at Cinemes Girona.

And AFFBCN 2022 has ended, the only festival specialized in Asian auteur cinema, which in its tenth edition has been held at Cinemes Girona, Phenomena, CaixaForum, Zumzeig, Betevé and B travel Experience, and has had the support of the Institute of Culture of Cultural Companies of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Institute of Culture of the Barcelona City Council, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office and Catalunya Film Festivals, among others. Casa Asia thanks all those who have made the celebration of this edition of the AFFBCN possible, and insists on its commitment for Barcelona to have a festival every year that includes the best filmography from the Asian continent.

Awards

Official Section

Jury of the Official Section: Rosa Vergés, Briccio Santos, Teodoro Granados, Paco Mulet and Jean Marie del Moral.

Panorama Official Section

Jury of the Panorama Official Section: Jonathan Harris, Javier Martín-Domínguez, Marieta Vasileva Petchanska, Manel Domínguez and Adrià Guxens

Discoveries Section

Jury of the Discoveries Section: Esteban Andueza, Pierre Gonnord, Rocío de la Villa, José Félix Collazos, and Marla Jacarilla

NETPAC Section

Jury of the NETPAC Section: Diana Ashimova, Alvaro Gurrea, Kei Matsushima, Alfons Mas, and Eugenio Rivera.

Special Section

Jury of the Special Section: Sandra Mur Puyuelo, Qazi Abdur Rahim, Nomunzuul Turmunkh, Sandra Sotelo and Eduardo Ruiz Sosa.

10th Asian Film Festival Barcelona | AFFBCN 2022

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Dates: from 26 October to 6 November
Venues: Cinemes Girona, Phenomena, CaixaForum, Zumzeig and Filmin (online)
Press Contact: Sandra Costa  |  670 236 496  |  [email protected]
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