Ah Girl wins best film at Singapore Silver Screen Awards
Singaporean debut feature Ah Girl took the top prize at the Asian Feature Film Competition during the Singapore International Film Festival's Silver Screen Awards on Saturday.
Ang Geck Geck Priscilla wins top award
Filmmaker Ang Geck Geck Priscilla received the best film honor for her work depicting a seven-year-old girl in 1990s Singapore whose parents separated. The director previously developed this project at the festival's Southeast Asian Film Lab in 2015 before it also won a youth jury award at Rotterdam.
Shahrbanoo Sadat honored for Kabul drama
Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat took home the best director prize for her film No Good Men set in Kabul before the Taliban returned to power. The story follows a camerawoman whose work and family face uncertainty as political conditions change.
Performance awards split between two actors
The jury divided the best performance prize between Pushpa Thing Lama for her role in Elephants in the Fog and Putri Marino for Four Seasons in Java. Thing Lama plays a member of Nepal's Kinnar community searching for a missing daughter while Marino portrays a woman returning home after prison.
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