South Korean director Park Ri-woong’s “The Land of Morning Calm” received the highest prize, the Golden Cyclo, on the Vesoul Worldwide Movie Competition of Asian Cinema.

The jury, headed by Chinese language auteur Jia Zhang-ke, stated: “”Watching this movie is like taking a dive into the ocean. The director led us dive from the calming floor into the depth of life, coming into the core zone of undercurrents of the surging actuality.” The movie received three awards on the Busan Worldwide Movie Competition final yr.

The pageant, which ran Feb. 11-18, noticed Kazakh filmmaker Elzat Eskendir’s “Abel” emerge as one other main winner. It acquired the Grand Jury Award, with the jury citing “the authenticity and confidence of the director’s inventive imaginative and prescient” in capturing “the conflicts and angers of the individuals on this desolate land.” The movie additionally received the Netpac Award and Movie Critics’ Award, with Netpac jurors particularly noting its “highly effective have a look at the impression of the dismantling of collective farms on the lives of shepherds in Kazakhstan after the united statesS.R’s collapse.”

“Deal on the Border” by Dastan Zhapar Ryskeldi (Kyrgyzstan) took the Jury Prize for “masterfully intertwining the themes of survival and ethical selection.” The movie additionally secured the Marc Haaz Award and the Pals of the Guimet Museum Award, with the latter praising the way it reveals “a small-time gangster transforms into a real Antigone of Kyrgyzstan.”

Jiang Xiaoxuan’s “To Kill a Mongolian Horse” (China) acquired a particular point out from the primary jury and was named the Pals of the Guimet Museum Favourite for its portrayal of “a Mongolian herder, step by step dispossessed of his identification in a society that’s remodeling its traditions into vacationer points of interest.”

The pageant offered honorary Golden Cyclo awards to Chinese language director Jia Zhang-ke and actor Zhao Tao. Different winners included “The Witness” by Nader Saeivar (Iran) for the Viewers Award for Fiction Movies, “My Dearest Viet” by Kawabata Kohei (Japan, Vietnam) for the Viewers Award for Documentary Movies, “Kono Basho” by Jaime Pacena II (Philippines) for the Excessive Faculty Award, and Myanmar’s “Bittersweet Honey” for the Younger Award.

The pageant’s thirty second version is about for Jan. 26-Feb. 3, 2026.