The ceremony took place at the Singtel Waterfront Theatre.
Shahrbanoo Sadat earned the best director honour for her work No Good Men. Sadat, who has resided in Germany since 2021, previously produced the 2019 movie The Orphanage. Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke received the best director award for The Bovine Comedy, which premiered at Locarno.
Sarah Lingam won the best performance award for Flame of the Forest. The film Burn was granted the Special Jury Prize. Arief Budiman’s Golden Island was selected as the best Southeast Asian short.
Berthold Wahjudi took home the shorts Special Jury Prize for the project ‘Vaterland’ or A Bule Named Yanto. Exyl’s Singapore God was recognised as the best Singapore short. The SGIFF Pro Pitching Forum Award went to Agape.
Lệ Diễm Hà’s Dear Son An also won the SGIFF Pro Pitching Forum Award from the Asian Producers Network. Beg, Borrow, Steal and Primal both received the SGIFF Abroad Award. Aamir Khan was presented with the SGIFF Screen Icon Award.
The film A Useful Ghost, which won the Critics’ Week Grand Prize at Cannes, received a special mention at SGIFF. Ang Geck Geck Priscilla, an alumna of the Busan Asian Film Academy, workshopped her project at the festival’s Southeast Asian Film Lab in 2015. Ah Girl also won the Youth Jury Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Nagahisa Makoto won awards at Sundance for his 2017 short And So We Put Goldfish in the Pool and his 2019 feature We Are Little Zombies. Broken Crayon won the best short film prize at the Singapore Short Film Awards in 2012. Second Life, Second Skin is a package consisting of 5 shorts.
