Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2022 Film Screenings

Overview

Every year, southeast Queensland plays host to the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, which hands out gongs to the year's best films from around the region. There's a star-studded ceremony, which takes place at HOTA, Home of the Arts on Friday, November 11 in 2022, and celebrates movies specifically from the 70 countries and areas within its chosen remit. If you're keen on seeing some of the flicks nominated (and hopefully, some of the winners), there's a cinema program as well.

The 2022 film screenings lineup is also gracing HOTA from Wednesday, November 9–Sunday, November 13, and it's well worth a trip down the highway. Kicking things off: the powerful New Zealand drama Muru, a bold, tense and potent response to the country's Tūhoe raids — as starring Cliff Curtis (Reminiscence) in a weighty performance, plus activist Tame Iti as himself.

Elsewhere on the bill, there's documentary Delikado, about a David versus Goliath-style quest to save the island of Palawan; South Korean mystery Hommage, featuring Parasite alum Jeong-eun and charting the searching for missing footage from one of the first feature films directed by a South Korean woman; Return to Seoul, following a 25-year-old-returning to the titular city to reconnect with her heritage; Children of the Mist, a doco focused on forced marriage in rural Vietnam; and Joyland, the first Pakistani film to screen at Cannes.

And, a must-see: Australia's own Sweet As, an outback-set coming-of-age story written and directed by Indigenous filmmaker Jub Clerc (The Heights) that won an award at this year's Toronto International Film Festival — and stars Shantae Barnes-Cowan (Firebite), Tasma Walton (How to Please a Woman) and Mark Coles Smith (Mystery Road: Origin).