“Life Without Principle” wins top prize at Asia-Pacific Film FestDecember 17, 2012 - 18:41 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Johnnie To’s crime drama Life Without Principle was named best film at the 55th Asia-Pacific Film Festival awards presented at Macau’s Venetian Resort Hotel, Deadline said. The festival originally was to take place in September in Shanghai, the first time the event would have been held in mainland China, but was cancelled after the Chinese government raised objections about the fest’s secretariat being based in Taiwan. To’s saga about a criminal, a bank officer and a cop caught up in the global financial crisis — Hong Kong’s submission for best foreign-language film at the Oscars — also garnered the best supporting actor gong for Lo Hoi-pang. Eddie Garcia won best actor for his performance as a lonely gay man befriended by a tricycle driver in Filipino director Jun Lana’s drama Bwakaw. Gwai Lun-mei was named best actress for Taiwanese writer-director Yang Ya-che’s romantic drama Gf*Bf, which charts the progress of three people who meet in high school in 1985 for more than two decades. Japan’s Hirokazu Kore-eda took the best director prize for I Wish, a drama about a fourth-grader who lives with his mother and grandparents and yearns to be reunited with his younger brother and father who live in a faraway town. Japan’s Makiko Watanabe won best supporting actress for her role as a divorcee who sends her teenage daughters to find their estranged father in Capturing Dad. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Turkey extends military presence in Azerbaijan The Turkish parliament has adopted a bill submitted by Recep Tayyip Erdogan to extend the mandate of Turkish troops. Russia to begin assessing migrant workers' speaking skills Rosobrnadzor is planning to change the Russian language exam for migrant workers and include an assessment of speaking skills Armenian, Saudi Foreign Minister meet in Riyadh The two commended the positive dynamics of the development of political dialogue between Armenia and Saudi Arabia Pashinyan: Azerbaijan’s proximity shouldn’t worry border residents At the same time, he said that he “does not guarantee [the security of villagers] one hundred percent”. |