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Considering the Number of Asian Awards in Cannes, it Looks Like We Are in FICA Vesoul

May 30, 2022
Panos Kotzathanasis
Jean-Marc Thérouanne, General Delegate of FICA, congratulating Korea-eda Hirokazu director of "Broker - the good stars" (Korea-Japan)

When the winners of the 75th were announced, we would have thought we were in Vesoul! No less than seven prizes for Asia:

Best Director:
Park Chan-wook, Decision To Leave (South Korea)

Best Actor:
Song Kang-ho, Broker (South Korea)

Best Actress
Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Holy Spider (Iran)

Camera d’Or Special Mention
Plan 75, dir: Chie Hayakawa (Japan)

Short Film Palme d’Or
The Water Murmurs, dir: Jianying Chen (China)

Special Mention for Short Film:
“Lori” by Abinash Bikram Shah (Nepal)

Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Broker, dir: Hirokazu Koreeda (S. Korea, Japan)

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Panagiotis (Panos) Kotzathanasis is a film critic and reviewer, specialized in Asian Cinema. He is the owner and administrator of Asian Movie Pulse, one of the biggest portals dealing with Asian cinema. He is a frequent writer in Hancinema, Taste of Cinema, and his texts can be found in a number of other publications including SIRP in Estonia, Film.sk in Slovakia, Asian Dialogue in the UK, Cinefil in Japan and Filmbuff in India.

Since 2019, he cooperates with Thessaloniki Cinematheque in Greece, curating various tributes to Asian cinema. He has participated, with video recordings and text, on a number of Asian movie releases, for Spectrum, Dekanalog and Error 4444. He has taken part as an expert on the Erasmus+ program, “Asian Cinema Education”, on the Asian Cinema Education International Journalism and Film Criticism Course.

Apart from a member of FIPRESCI and the Greek Cinema Critics Association, he is also a member of NETPAC, the Hellenic Film Academy and the Online Film Critics Association.

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