Japanese films have taken top honours at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards on the Gold Coast, with Wim Wenders' 'Perfect Days' and Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 'Evil Does Not Exist' awarded Best Film and the Jury Grand Prize respectively.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 'Drive My Car' has been honoured yet again, winning this year's AACTA Award for Best Asian Film.
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof has won this year's $60,000 Sydney Film Prize for 'There Is No Evil', beating out 11 other Sydney Film Festival (SFF) competition films.
Leah Purcell is the first Australian to be awarded the Jury Grand Prize at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) after being recognised for 'The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson'.
Essie Davis and Leah Purcell will battle it out in the best performance by an actress category at next month's Asia Pacific Screen Awards, while 'Nitram' lead Caleb Landry Jones and Australian/Afghan film 'When Pomegranates Howl' are also among the nominees.