Thai debut characteristic “A Helpful Ghost,” which gained the grand prix at Cannes Critics’ Week earlier this yr, continued its pageant success on the thirteenth QCinema Worldwide Movie Pageant within the Philippines. Directed by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, the movie gained the Asian Subsequent Wave greatest image and the inventive achievement award for manufacturing design.
“A Helpful Ghost,” which tells the story of a spouse’s spirit reincarnated as a vacuum cleaner amid themes of environmental and household struggles, was additionally the pageant’s closing movie. The jury — comprising Filipino actor John Arcilla, Karlovy Fluctuate programmer Martin Horyna, Epic Media’s Bianca Balbuena-Liew, and journalist Liz Shackleton — praised the movie “for seamlessly weaving collectively all the weather of cinema with its playful stability of emotional ambiguity and visible consistency.”
Different main winners included Chie Hayakawa’s “Renoir,” which took greatest director, whereas Yui Suzuki gained greatest lead efficiency for her function as 11-year-old Fuki Okita. Fujimoto Akio’s “Misplaced Land” obtained the grand jury prize, and Janus Victoria’s “Diamonds within the Sand” earned greatest screenplay.
Within the New Horizons part spotlighting daring debut movies, Tan Siyou’s “Amoeba” was named greatest movie. Sophy Romvari’s “Blue Heron” earned the Netpac jury prize, and Reza Rahadian’s “On Your Lap” took greatest Asian first movie.
RainbowQC, the pageant’s LGBTQ competitors, acknowledged Divine Sung’s “Summer season’s Digital camera” with a particular point out, Diego Céspedes’ “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo” as greatest LGBTQ movie, and Jaume Claret Muxart’s “Unusual River” with the jury prize.
Inventive director Ed Lejano talked up the awarded movies as “a mirrored image of QCinema’s continued thrust as a platform of discovery. From among the many 18 titles in our three characteristic competitions, debut movies or second-features actually dominate this yr’s line-ups.”
In QCShorts Worldwide, JT Trinidad’s “Honey, My Love, So Candy” gained greatest brief movie. The Serrano Sisters’ “Floor Stress” was named greatest Filipino movie, Lin Htet Aung’s “A Metamorphosis” obtained the jury prize, and Dale’s “Si Kara: Ang Babaye Nga Nag Daba Daba” was honored for gender sensitivity.
Quezon Metropolis, the pageant host, was just lately designated a UNESCO Inventive Metropolis for Movie, turning into the primary metropolis within the Philippines and becoming a member of Asian friends like Yamagata and Busan on this distinction.
