APSA for Best Feature Film

‘Tulpan’ Kazakhstan/Russia/Switzerland-Poland-Germany
Produced by Karl Baumgartner, Valerie Fischer, Gulnara Sarsenova, Sergey Melkumov, Sergey Selyanov, Bulat Galimgereyev,  Elena Yatsura,  Henryk Romanowski, Thanassis Karathanos and Raimond Goebel

"Tulpan is a very skilfully structured narrative telling the most unusual story and with great subtlety. The characterisations are really quite superb and done in a lot of detail and it has tremendous humour." - Bruce Beresford (Jury President)

"The director syllogistically used an approach to make this very powerful story come to life. I really appreciated the film a lot." - Hanna Lee (Jury Member)

"This is a movie that touches me the most, this story is really tragic and stirring, however it has expressed a kind of respectful humanistic emotion of a person in front of great social change. The director does not intentionally use techniques to deliberately cause a documentary effect for his movie. He uses a lot of lens sceneries and makes great efforts to let the audience see a natural ecology.  I believe what he does would give many young director's some revelation, that is, you must first be familiar with human emotions before you can paint such a lively picture of them." - Professor Zheng Dongtian (Jury Member)