Love Conquers All

(the Best New Asian Filmmaker of the Year)
This award serves to promote emerging film talent in Asia by selecting the best new film in New Currents section, the only featured competition at PIFF, by an Asian director. A cash award of USD 30,000 will presented.

New Currents Jury:

Istvan Szabo (director, chairman of the jury)
Bruno Dumont/ director,
Abolfazl Jalili/director,
Daniel Yu/producer,
MOON So-Ry/actress

The awards goes to two films:

Betelut (Director: Heng Yang/China) This film is selected for its new cinematic value, great acting from all the cast, powerful picture and beautiful silent moments. The film opens a window seeing new possibilities of fimmaking finding a new way for a cinematic change.

Love Conquers All (Director: Chui Mui Tan/Malaysia) This film is using a known cinematic language in a nice way telling the life of a village girl who is going to a big city to work and face the reality and the morality of our time.

Tan Chui Mui, Coral Ong, Gan Hui Yee and Nyu Ka Jin were in Pusan with the film.

The audiences responses were great. And they were very involved with the choices of the character.

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