The NETPAC Award is awarded to the best Asian feature film by a jury from the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema. The winner of the NETPAC Award 2013 is: What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love by Mouly Surya.
The NETPAC Award jury members of 2013 are Eduardo Lejano Jr., Director of the University of the Philippines Film Institute (UPFI) and filmmaker and film journalist, Philippines; Jo Ji-Hoon, former Programme Coordinator of the Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea; and Massoud Bakhshi, filmmaker, Iran.
Winner
The winner of the NETPAC Award 2013 is:
What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love by
Mouly Surya (Indonesia, 2013). From the jury report: 'For its delicate portrayal of the desires and fantasies of its visually-impaired characters in a Jakarta school of the blind that appeals to the senses in evoking the textures and rhythms of the emerging South East Asian cinema.'
Besides making films, Mouly Surya teaches a directing class in Jakarta. Her début film, FIKSI, won several awards at JIFFEST 2008 and premiered internationally at the Busan International Film Festival. What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love, her second feature, was supported by the Hubert Bals Fund and saw its European premiere in IFFR’s Bright Future 2013.
Overview nominations for the NETPAC Award 2013
- Kayan, Maryam Najafi, Lebanon/Canada
- Four Ways to Die in My Hometown, CHAI Chunya, China
- What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love, Mouly Surya, Indonesia, Hubert Bals Fund-supported film
- Ziba, Bani Khoshnoudi, Iran/France
- GFP Bunny, TSUCHIYA Yutaka, Japan
- Disappearing Landscape, Vladimir Todorovic, Singapore/Serbia/Spain
- Sunshine Boys, Kim Tae-Gon,South Korea
- Poor Folk, Midi Z, Taiwan/Myanmar
- A Fallible Girl, Conrad Clark, United Arab Emirates/China/United Kingdom
- Lukas the Strange, John Torres, Philippines
Overview past winners NETPAC Award
2012
Sentimental Animal by Wu Quan (China)
2011
Black Blood by Zhang Miaoyan (China/France)
The Day I Disappeared by Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi (Iran)
2010
Moscow by Whang Cheol-Mean (South Korea)
2009
The Land by He Jia (China)
2008
What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?! by Niu Chen-zer (Taiwan)
2007
Fourteen (Ju-yon-sai) by Hirosue Hiromasa (Japan)
2006
The Lost Hum (Hanauta-Dorobou) by Hirosue Hiromasa (Japan)
2005
Sanctuary by Ho Yuhang (Malaysia)
2004
The Missing (Bu Jian) by Lee Kang-sheng (Taiwan)
Special mention:
Uniform (Zhifu) by Diao Yinan (China)
2003
(No NETPAC Jury, no Award awarded)
2002
Wave by Okuhara Hiroshi (Japan)
Special mention:
Secret Ballot by Babak Payami (Italy/Iran)
2001
Dokhtaran Khorshid (Daughters of the Sun), Mariam Shahriar (Iran)
2000
Nang Nak, Nonzee Nimibutr (Thailand)
1999
The Servant's Shirt, Mani Kaul (India)
1998
Dance of the Wind, Rajan Khosa (India)
Special mention:
Green Fish, Lee Chang-Dong (South Korea)
1997
2 Duo, Suwa Nobuhiro (Japan)
1996 ex aequo:
Heartbreak Island, Hsu Hsiao-Ming (Taiwan)
Nostalgia For Countryland, Dang Nath Minh (Vietnam)
1995
Vidheyan, Adoor Gopalakrishnan (India)