Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2023 Film Screenings

Overview

Here's something that you don't get to do every day: see the latest film from Japanese filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi before it hits cinemas in general release, and fresh from it winning a Silver Lion — for the Grand Jury Prize, in fact — at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival.

After nabbing the Oscar for Best International Feature in 2022, and also being nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay — all for Drive My Car — the director is back on-screen with Evil Does Not Exist, which closes out 2023's APSA screening program.

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 3 in 2023, and celebrates movies specifically from the 70 countries and areas within its chosen remit. If you're keen on catching some of the flicks nominated (and hopefully, some of the winners), there's a cinema program as well — including Evil Does Not Exist.

The 2023 film screenings lineup is also gracing HOTA from Wednesday, November 1–Saturday, November 4, and it's well worth a trip down the highway. Kicking things off: body-horror film Tiger Stripes, which is set in the Malaysian jungle and won the 2023 Cannes Critics' Week Grand Prize.

Elsewhere on the bill, there's Riceboy Sleeps, which spends time with a Korean single mother and her son as they start a new life in Canada in the 90s; Tora's Husband, about the titular character's quest for self-improvement, and to handle everyday ups and downs; and coming-of-age drama A Song Sung Blue.

Top image: 2023 NEOPA, Fictive.