1993 •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner The Peach Blossom Land (
Stan Lai,
Taiwan)
1994 •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner All Under the Moon (
Yoichi Sai, Japan) •
Special Mention Shackles (
Nansalmaagin Uranchimeg, Mongolia) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner The Servile (
Adoor Gopalakrishnan,
India)
1995 •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner Undo (
Shunji Iwai, Japan) •
Winner Elephant Song (
Go Riju, Japan) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner The Servile (
Adoor Gopalakrishnan,
India) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner A Borrowed Life (
Wu Nien-jen,
Taiwan) •
Special Mention Mee Pok Man (
Eric Khoo,
Singapore)
1996 •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner ...And the Moon Dances (
Garin Nugroho, Indonesia) •
Special Mention Heaven-6-Box (
Hiroyuki Oki, Japan) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Three Friends (
Yim Soon-rye,
South Korea) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Heartbreak Island (
Hsu Hsiao-ming,
Taiwan) •
Winner Nostalgia for Home Country (
Nhat Minh Dang,
Vietnam) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner Good Men, Good Women (
Hou Hsiao-hsien,
Taiwan) •
Special Mention ''
It's a Long Way to the Sea'' (
Jahnu Barua,
North India)
1997 •
Amiens International Film Festival •
Winner Somersault in a Coffin (
Derviş Zaim, Turkey) •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner Focus (
Satoshi Izaka, Japan) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Bad Movie (
Jang Sun-woo,
South Korea) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner 2 Duo (
Nobuhiro Suwa, Japan) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner 12 Storeys (
Eric Khoo,
Singapore) •
Special Mention The Long Journey (
Lê Hoàng, Vietnam)
1998 •
Amiens International Film Festival •
Winner Walls Within (
Prasanna Vithanage, Sri Lanka) •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner The Pickpocket (
Jia Zhangke, China) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner The Power of Kangwon Province (
Hong Sang-soo,
South Korea) •
Special Mention A Killing Story (
Yeo Kyun-Dong, South Korea) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Dance of the Wind (
Rajan Khosa, India) •
Special Mention Green Fish (
Lee Chang-dong,
South Korea) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner In the Navel of the Sea (
Marilou Diaz-Abaya, the
Philippines) •
Special Mention Hold You Tight (
Stanley Kwan,
Hong Kong) •
Taiwan International Documentary Festival •
Winner Out for Love...Be Back Shortly (
Dan Katzir,
Israel) •
Special Mention ''
Nadya's Village'' (
Seiichi Motohashi,
Japan)
1999 •
Amiens International Film Festival •
Winner Death On A Full Moon Day (
Prasanna Vithanage, Sri Lanka) •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner 2H (Ying Li, China) •
Winner Dil Se.. (
Mani Ratnam,
India) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner The Bird Who Stops in the Air (
Jeon Soo-il, South Korea) •
Special Mention The Uprising (
Park Kwang-Su, South Korea) •
Cinemanila International Film Festival •
Winner Birth of A Butterfly (
Mojtaba Raei, Iran) •
Special Mention Fetch A Pail of Water (
Jeffrey Jeturian, the Philippines) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner Connection by Fate (
Wan Ren, Taiwan) •
Special Mention Beshkempir (
Aktan Abdykalykov, Kyrgyzstan) •
Special Mention The Power of the Kangwon-du Province (
Hong Sang-soo, South Korea) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner ''The Servant's Shirt'' (
Mani Kaul,
North India) •
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival •
Winner Shiro the White (
Katsuyuki Hirano, Japan) •
Special Mention Annyong-Kimchi (
Tetsuaki Matsue, Japan) •
Special Mention I Love (080) (
Yang Li-chou, Taiwan)
2000 •
Amiens International Film Festival •
Winner The Orphan of Anyang (
Wang Chao, China) •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner The Lady of the House (
Rituparno Ghosh,
India) •
Winner ''
Nabbie's Love'' (
Yuji Nakae, Japan) •
Special Mention Making Sun-Dried Red Peppers (
Jang Hee-Sun, South Korea) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Chunhyang (
Im Kwon-taek, South Korea) •
Dhaka International Film Festival •
Winner Padadaya (
Linton Semage, Sri Lanka) •
Winner Saroja (
Somaratne Dissanayake, Sri Lanka) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Breaking the Silence (
Zhou Sun, China) •
Special Mention Spinning Gasing (
Teck Tan, Malaysia) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Nang Nak (
Nonzee Nimibutr,
Thailand) •
Winner Paper (
Ding Jiancheng,
China) •
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival •
Winner Yi Yi (
Edward Yang, Taiwan) •
Special Mention Peppermint Candy (
Lee Chang-dong, South Korea) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner Darkness and Light (
Chang Tso-chi, Taiwan) •
Winner So Close to Paradise (
Wang Xiaoshuai, China) •
Taiwan International Documentary Festival •
Winner Alone (
Dmitry Kabakov,
Russia) •
Special Mention Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi (
Avi Mograbi,
Israel) •
Special Mention The Lost Kingdom (
Lee Hsiang-Hsiu,
Taiwan) •
Venice Film Festival •
Winner Platform (
Jia Zhangke, China) •
Special Mention The Isle (
Kim Ki-duk,
South Korea)
2001 •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (
Bahman Farmanara,
Iran) •
Special Mention Wharf of Widows (
Trong Ninh Luu,
Vietnam) •
Brisbane International Film Festival •
Winner What Time Is It There? (
Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan) •
Special Mention The Wrestlers (
Buddhadeb Dasgupta, India) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Take Care of My Cat (
Jeong Jae-eun, South Korea) •
Special Mention Bad Guy (
Kim Ki-duk, South Korea) •
Special Mention Waikiki Brothers (
Yim Soon-rye, South Korea) •
Cinefan Asian Film Festival •
Winner Demons (
Mario O'Hara, the Philippines) •
Cinemanila International Film Festival •
Winner Batang West Side (
Lav Diaz, the Philippines) •
Fajr International Film Festival •
Winner Going By (
Iraj Karimi, Iran) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Devils on the Doorstep (
Jiang Wen, China) •
Special Mention The Day Toshi was Born (
Hikaru Yoshikawa, Japan) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Daughters of the Sun (
Maryam Shahriar,
Iran) •
Special Mention The House of Guavas (
Dang Nhat Minh,
Vietnam) •
Jakarta International Film Festival •
Winner – Short Film The Greatest Day Dreamer (
Liew Wai Ming, Singapore) •
Special Mention Wired (
Chung Fa Yang, Taiwan) •
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival •
Winner Under the Skin of the City (
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Iran) •
Special Mention Firefly Dreams (
John Williams, Japan) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner A Poet (
Garin Nugroho, Indonesia) •
Special Mention This is My Moon (
Asoka Handagama, Sri Lanka) •
Venice Film Festival •
Winner Secret Ballot (
Babak Payami,
Iran) •
Winner Quitting (
Zhang Yang, China) •
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival •
Winner My Migrant Soul (
Yasmine Kabir, Bangladesh) •
Special Mention Pansy & Ivy (
Kye Un-kyoung, South Korea) •
Special Mention Mysterious Object at Noon (
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)
2002 •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner Chen Mo and Meiting (
Liu Hao, China) •
Special Mention Fish and Elephant (
Li Yu, China) •
Brisbane International Film Festival •
Winner Seafood (
Zhu Wen, China) •
Special Mention Whispering Sands (
Nan T. Achnas, Indonesia) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Road Movie (
Kim Insik, South Korea) •
Cinefan Asian Film Festival •
Winner Lan Yu (
Stanley Kwan, Hong Kong) •
Cinemanila International Film Festival •
Winner Hollywood Hong Kong (
Fruit Chan, Hong Kong) •
Special Mention Harmful Insect (
Akihiko Shiota, Japan) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Eyes of a Beauty (
Hu Guan, China) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Wave (
Hiroshi Okuhara, Japan) •
Special Mention Secret Ballot (
Babak Payami,
Iran) •
Locarno International Film Festival •
Winner Mr. & Mrs. Iyer (
Aparna Sen, India) •
Special Mention Our Times (
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Iran) •
Special Mention Obor Kalandia (
Sobi al-Zobaidi, Palestine) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner Eliana, Eliana (
Riri Riza, Indonesia) •
Special Mention I-San Special (
Mingmongkol Sonakul, Thailand) •
Taiwan International Documentary Festival •
Winner Sky-blue Hometown (
Kim So-young,
South Korea)
2003 •
Bangkok International Film Festival •
Winner A Tale of a Naughty Girl (
Buddhadeb Dasgupta, India) •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner Blessing Bell (
Hiroyuki Tanaka, Japan) •
Special Mention Bird-Man Tale (
Garin Nugroho,
Indonesia) •
Brisbane International Film Festival •
Winner Oasis (
Lee Chang-dong, South Korea) •
Special Mention Letters in the Wind (
Ali Reza Aminal, Iran) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Untold Scandal (
E J-yong, South Korea) •
Cinefan Asian Film Festival •
Winner Drifters (
Wang Xiaoshuai, China) •
Cinemanila International Film Festival •
Winner Divine Intervention (
Elia Suleiman, Palestine) •
Special Mention ''
Dekada '70'' (
Chito S. Rono, the Philippines) •
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival •
Winner The Coast Guard (
Kim Ki-duk, South Korea) •
Locarno International Film Festival •
Winner Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (
Kim Ki-duk, South Korea) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner 15 – The Movie (
Royston Tan, Singapore) •
Special Mention Unknown Pleasures (
Jia Zhang-ke,
China) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner Cry Woman (
Liu Bingjian, China)
2004 •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner South of the Clouds (
Zhu Wen, China) •
Special Mention Final Solution (
Rakesh Sharma, India) •
Brisbane International Film Festival •
Winner ''
The River's End'' (
Behrooz Afkhami, Iran) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner 3-Iron (
Kim Ki-duk, South Korea and Japan) •
Special Mention So Cute (
Kim Su-hyeon,
South Korea) •
Cinemanila International Film Festival •
Winner Min (
Ho Yuhang, Malaysia) •
Dhaka International Film Festival •
Winner Swaraaj – The Little Republic (
Anwar Jamal, India) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner ''
Peep 'TV' Show'' (
Yutaka Tsuchiya, Japan) •
Honorable Mention Rewind (
Hak-son Kim, South Korea) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner The Missing (
Lee Kang-sheng,
Taiwan) •
Special Mention Uniform (
Diao Yi'nan China) •
Locarno International Film Festival •
Winner Story Undone (
Hassan Yektapanah, Iran) •
Winner The Hunter (
Serik Aprymov, Kazakhstan) •
Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner ''
Listener's Choice'' (
Abdellatif Abdelhamid, Syria) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner Ira Madiyama (
Prasanna Vithanage, Sri Lanka) •
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival •
Winner The Taste of Tea (
Katsuhito Ishii, Japan) •
Special Mention Little Men (
Nariman Turebajev;
Kasahstan, France) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner The First Letter (
Abolfazl Jalili, Iran)
2005 •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner This Charming Girl (
Lee Yoon-ki,
South Korea) •
Brisbane International Film Festival •
Winner Spying Cam (
Hwang Chul-min, South Korea) •
Special Mention Boat out of Watermelon Rinds (
Ahmet Ulucay, Turkey) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner The Unforgiven (
Yoon Jong-bin, South Korea) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Season of the Horse (
Ning Cai, Mongolia) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Sanctuary (
Ho Yuhang,
Malaysia) •
Locarno International Film Festival •
Winner So Much Rice (
Li Hongqi, China) •
Winner The Rising - Ballad of Mangal Pandey (
Ketan Mehta, India) •
Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner The Black and White Milk Cow (
Jin Yang, China) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner Stray Dogs (
Marzieh Meshkini, Iran) •
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival •
Winner Earth And Ashes (
Atiq Rahimi, Afghanistan) •
Venice Film Festival •
Winner 13 Tzameti (
Géla Babluani,
Georgia) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner Two Great Sheep (
Liu Hao, China)
2006 •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner Dear Pyongyang (
Yang Yong-hi, Japan) •
Brisbane International Film Festival •
Winner Blood Rain (
Kim Dae-seung, South Korea) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner The Last Dining Table (
Roh Gyeong-tae, South Korea) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner 4:30 (
Royston Tan, Singapore) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner The Lost Hum (
Hiromasa Hirosue, Japan) •
Winner The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (
Auraeus Solito, the Philippines) •
Locarno International Film Festival •
Winner ''
Don't Look Back'' (
Kim Young-Nam, South Korea) •
Winner Bliss (
Sheng Zhimin, China) •
Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner Midnight My Love (
Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, Thailand) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner Todo todo teros (
John Torres, the Philippines) •
Special Mention Taking Father Home (
Ying Liang, China) •
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival •
Winner Kargaran Mashghoule Karand (
Mani Haghighi,
Iran) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner Gilane (
Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and
Mohsen Abdolvahab, Iran)
2007 •
Antalya Film Festival •
Winner Yumurta (
Semih Kaplanoğlu, Turkey) •
Winner Under the Bombs (
Philippe Aractingi, Lebanon) •
Asiatica Film Mediale •
Winner Pure Coolness (
Ernest Abdyjaparov, Kyrgyzstan) •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner Faces of a Fig Tree (
Kaori Momoi, Japan) •
Winner Tuli (
Auraeus Solito,
Philippines) •
Brisbane International Film Festival •
Winner The Bet Collector (
Jeffrey Jeturian, the Philippines) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner With the Girl of Black Soil (
Jeon Soo-il, South Korea) •
Winner Hello Stranger (
Kim Donghyun, South Korea) •
Eurasia International Film Festival •
Winner Swallow (
Abai Kulbai, Kazakhstan) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Owl and the Sparrow (
Stephane Gauger, Vietnam) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner – Asian Competition Getting Home (
Zhang Yang, China) •
Winner – Malayalam Competition Ore Kadal (
Shyamaprasad, India) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Fourteen (
Hiromasa Hirosue, Japan) •
Special Mention Dancing Bells (
Deepak Kumaran Menon, Malaysia) •
Special Mention How Is Your Fish Today? (
Xiaolu Guo; China, UK) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner Summer Heat (
Brillante Mendoza, the Philippines) •
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival •
Winner ''
The Band's Visit (Bikur hatizmoret'') (
Eran Kolirin, Israel) •
Locarno International Film Festival •
Winner Those Three (
Naghi Nemati, Iran) •
Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema •
Winner Dancing Bells (
Deepak Kumaran Menon, Malaysia) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner Crossing the Dust (
Shawkat Amin Korki, Iraq) •
Winner Like A Virgin (
Lee Hae-young,
Lee Hae-jun; South Korea) •
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner The Unseeable (
Wisit Sasanatieng, Thailand) •
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival •
Winner Mogari No Mori (
Naomi Kawase, Japan) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner Kantatar (
Bappaditya Bandopadhyay,
India)
2008 •
Antalya Film Festival •
Winner Sonbahar (
Özcan Alper, Turkey) •
Asiatica Film Mediale •
Winner Tokyo Sonata (
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan) •
Winner Songs from the Southern Seas (
Marat Sarulu, Kazakhstan) •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner United Red Army (
Kōji Wakamatsu, Japan) •
Special Mention Paruthiveeran (
Ameer Sultan, India) •
Brisbane International Film Festival •
Winner Foster Child (
Brillante Mendoza, the Philippines) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Members of the Funeral (
Baek Seung-bin, South Korea) •
Winner Treeless Mountain (
Kim Soyong, South Korea) •
Eurasia International Film Festival •
Winner Together with my Father (
Danyar Salamat, Kazakhstan) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Brutus, Ang Paglalakbay (
Tara Illenberger, the Philippines) •
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival •
Winner Written (
Kim Byung-woo, South Korea) •
Winner Tulpan (
Sergey Dvortsevoy, Kazakhstan) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner – Asian Competition My Marlon and Brando (
Hüseyin Karabey, Turkey) •
Winner – Malayalam Competition Adayalangal (
M.G. Sasi, India) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?! (
Doze Niu,
Taiwan) •
Special Mention Crude Oil (
Wang Bing,
China) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner Children of God (
Yi Seung-jun, Korea) •
Winner Death in the Land of Enacantos (
Lav Diaz, the Philippines) •
Locarno International Film Festival •
Winner Daytime Drinking (
Noh Young-seok, South Korea) •
Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner Bioscope (
K. M. Madhusudhanan, India) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner Tirador (
Brillante Mendoza, the Philippines) •
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner The Photograph (
Nan Triveni Achnas, Indonesia) •
Winner Sellout (
Yeo Joon Han, Malaysia) •
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival •
Winner The Shaft (
Zhang Chi, China) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner The Old Barber (
Hasi Chaolu, China) •
Special Mention The Red Awn (
Cai Shangjun, China)
2009 •
Antalya Film Festival •
Winner Thirst (
Park Chan-wook, South Korea) •
Asian Film Festival Barcelona •
Winner Claustrophobia (
Ivy Ho, Hong Kong) •
Asiatica Film Mediale •
Winner The Gift to Stalin (
Rustem Abdrashov, Kazakhstan) •
Winner Jamila and the President (
Ratna Sarumpaet, Indonesia) •
Bangkok International Film Festival •
Winner Independencia (
Raya Martin, the Philippines) •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner ''
Doctor Ma's Country Clinic'' (
Cong Feng, China) •
Winner The Day After (
Lee Suk-Gyung, South Korea) •
Brisbane International Film Festival •
Winner About Elly (
Asghar Farhadi, Iran) •
Winner Agrarian Utopia (
Uruphong Rakasasad, Thailand) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Paju (
Park Chan-ok, South Korea) •
Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival •
Winner Baseco Bakal Boys (
Ralston Jover, the Philippines) •
Cines del Sur •
Winner Flowers of the Sky (
Prasanna Vithanage, Sri Lanka) •
Winner Before the Burial (
Behnam Behzadi, Iran) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Castaway on the Moon (
Lee Hae-jun, South Korea) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner – Asian Competition Jermal (Fishing Platform) (
Ravi Bharwani, Indonesia) •
Winner – Malayalam Competition Kerala Cafe (
Lal Jose,
Shaji Kailas,
Revathi,
Shyamaprasad,
Anwar Rasheed,
B. Unnikrishnan,
Anjali Menon,
M. Padmakumar,
Shankar Ramakrishnan,
Uday Ananthan; India) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner The Land (
He Jia,
China) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner Imburnal (
Sherad Anthony Sanchez, the Philippines) •
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival •
Winner Breathless (
Yang Ik-june, South Korea) •
Locarno International Film Festival •
Winner At the End of Daybreak (
Ho Yuhang, Malaysia) •
Winner One Night in Supermarket (
Yang Qing, China) •
Osian's Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema •
Winner The Long Night (
Hatem Ali, Syria) •
Winner Khargosh (
Paresh Kamdar, India) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner Jalainur (
Zhao Ye, China) •
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (
Edwin, Indonesia) •
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival •
Winner No One Knows About Persian Cats (
Bahman Ghobadi, Iran) •
Third Eye Asian Film Festival •
Winner The Gift to Stalin (
Rustem Abdrashov, Kazakhstan) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner Dawn of the World (
Abbas Fahdel;
Iraq, France)
2010 •
Asian Film Festival Barcelona •
Winner Between Two Worlds (
Vimukthi Jayasundara, Sri Lanka) •
Asiatica Film Mediale •
Winner Riding the Stallion of Dream (
Girish Kasaravalli, India) •
Winner Single Man (
Hao Jie, China) •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner Au Revoir Taipei (
Arvin Chen,
Taiwan) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Dooman River (
Zhang Lu, South Korea and France) •
Chongqing Independent Film and Video Festival •
Winner – Feature Film Fortune Teller (
Xu Tong, China) •
Winner – Short Film The Unnamed (
Huang Yali, Taiwan) •
Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival •
Winner Sheika (
Arnel Mardoquio, the Philippines) •
Cines del Sur •
Winner Adrift (
Bui Thac Chuyen; Vietnam, France) •
Didor International Film Festival •
Winner The Other Bank (
George Ovashvili, Georgia) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Monga (
Doze Niu, Taiwan) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner – Asian Competition I Am Afia Megha Abhimanyu Omar (
Onir Anirban, India) •
Winner – Malayalam Competition Veettilekkulla Vazhi (
Dr. Biju, India) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Moscow (
Whang Cheol-mean,
South Korea) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner Clash (
Pepe Diokno, the Philippines) •
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival •
Winner Son of Babylon (
Mohamed Al-Daradji, Iraq) •
Winner Orion (
Zamani Esmati, Iran) •
Moscow International Film Festival •
Winner Food and the Maiden (
Minoru Kurimura, Japan) •
Singapore International Film Festival •
Winner The Dreamer (Sang Pemimpi) (
Riri Riza, Indonesia) •
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner Mundane History (
Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand) •
Third Eye Asian Film Festival •
Winner Judge (
Liu Jie, China) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner Animal Town (
Jeon Kyu-hwan,
South Korea) •
Vietnam International Film Festival •
Winner Sandcastle (
Boo Junfeng, Singapore)
2011 •
Abu Dhabi Film Festival •
Winner Marathon Boy (
Gemma Atwal; UK, India) •
Asiatica Film Mediale •
Winner Dokhtar...Pedar...Dokhtar (
Panahbarkhoda Rezaee, Iran) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner The King of Pigs (
Yeon Sang-ho, South Korea) •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner ''
Heaven's Story'' (
Takahisa Zeze, Japan) •
Special Mention Ways of the Sea (
Sheron Dayoc, the Philippines) •
Chongqing Independent Film and Video Festival •
Winner – Feature Film Old Dog (
Pema Tseden, China) •
Winner – Short Film Court Ladies (
Shen Chaofang, China) •
Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival •
Winner Boundary (
Benito Bautista, the Philippines) •
Eurasia International Film Festival •
Winner The Lead (
Zulfikar Musakov, Uzbekistan) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Hanaan (
Ruslan Pak, South Korea and Uzbekistan) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner – Asian Competition At the End of It All (
Aditi Roy, India) •
Winner – Malayalam Competition Adaminte Makan Abu (
Salim Ahamed, India) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Black Blood (
Zhang Miaoyan, China and France) •
Winner The Day I Disappeared (
Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi, Iran) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner Single Man (
Hao Jie, China) •
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival •
Winner Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (
Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina) •
Kolkata International Film Festival •
Winner Guerrilla (
Nasiruddin Yousuff, Bangladesh) •
Moscow International Film Festival •
Winner The House Under the Water (
Sepideh Farsi, Iran) •
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner Bunohan (
Dain Said, Malaysia) •
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival •
Winner Mourning (
Morteza Farshbaf, Iran) •
Third Eye Asian Film Festival •
Winner Gangor (
Italo Spinelli; Italy, India) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner P.S. (
Elkin Tuychiev, Uzbekistan) •
Warsaw International Film Festival •
Winner No 89 Shimen Road (
Haolun Shu, Hong Kong)
2012 •
Abu Dhabi Film Festival •
Winner A World Not Ours (
Mahdi Fleifel; Palestine, UK, Lebanon, Denmark and United Arab Emirates) •
Asiatica Film Mediale •
Winner Parviz (
Majid Barzegar, Iran) •
Bengaluru International Film Festival •
Winner Epilogue (
Amir Manor, Israel) •
Winner ''
Darling, Something's Wrong with Your Head'' (
Susan Youssef, Palestine) •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner Modest Reception (
Mani Haghighi, Iran) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Jiseul (
O Muel, South Korea) •
Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival •
Winner - Directors Showcase Competition Bwakaw (
Jun Lana, the Philippines) •
Winner - New Breed Competition Diablo (
Mes de Guzman, the Philippines) •
Eurasia International Film Festival •
Winner Student (
Darejan Omirbaev, Kazakhstan) •
Hanoi International Film Festival •
Winner Night of Silence (
Reis Çelik, Turkey) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Apparition (
Isabel Sandoval, credited as Vincent Sandoval, the Philippines) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner – Asian Competition I. D. (
K. D. Kamal, India) •
Winner – Malayalam Competition Ee Adutha Kalathu (
Arun Kumar Aravind, India) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Sentimental Animal (
Wu Quan, China) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (
Lav Diaz, the Philippines) •
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival •
Winner Beyond the Hill (
Emin Alper; Turkey, Greece) •
Kolkata International Film Festival •
Winner 11 Flowers (
Wang Xiaoshuai, China) •
Moscow International Film Festival •
Winner The Horde (
Andrei Proshkin, Russia) •
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner The Love Songs of Tiedan (
Hao Jie, China) •
Toronto International Film Festival •
Winner The Land of Hope (
Sion Sono; Japan, United Kingdom and Taiwan) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner August Drizzle (
Aruna Jayawardana, Sri Lanka) •
Special Mention Return Ticket (
Teng Yung-Shing; Taiwan, China) •
Warsaw International Film Festival •
Winner Kalayaan (
Adolfo Alix Jr., the Philippines)
2013 •
Abu Dhabi Film Festival •
Winner Harmony Lessons (
Emir Baigazin; Kazakhstan, Germany, France) •
Asiatica Film Mediale •
Winner Snow on Pines (
Payman Maadi, Iran) •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner When I Saw You (
Annemarie Jacir; Palestine and Jordan) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Shuttlecock (
Lee Yubin, South Korea) •
Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival •
Winner - Directors Showcase Competition The Bit Player (
Jeffrey Jeturian, the Philippines) •
Winner - New Breed Competition Transit (
Hannah Espia, the Philippines) •
Eurasia International Film Festival •
Winner The Little Brother (
Serik Aprymov, Kazakhstan) •
Winner Waiting for the Sea (
Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, Tajikistan) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Monsoon Shootout (
Amit Kumar, India) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner – Asian Competition Meghe Dhaka Tara (
Kamaleshwar Mukherjee, India) •
Winner – Malayalam Competition CR No: 89 (
P. P. Sudevan, India) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner ''
What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love'' (
Mouly Surya, Indonesia) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner Flashback Memories 3D (
Matsue Tetsuaki, Japan) •
Kolkata International Film Festival •
Winner Television (
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Bangladesh) •
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy (
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, Thailand) •
Moscow International Film Festival •
Winner A Cradle for Mother (
Panahbarkhoda Rezaee, Iran) •
Pacific Meridian Film Festival •
Winner Ilo Ilo (
Anthony Chen, Singapore) •
Tripoli Film Festival •
Winner Shakespeare Must Die (
Ing Kanjanavanit, Thailand) •
Winner Liberta (
Kan Lume, Singapore) •
Toronto International Film Festival •
Winner Qissa (Anup Singh; India, Germany) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner With You Without You (
Prasanna Vithanage, Sri Lanka) •
Warsaw International Film Festival •
Winner Harmony Lessons (
Emir Baigazin; Kazakhstan, Germany, France)
2014 •
Abu Dhabi Film Festival •
Winner Iraqi Odyssey (
Samir, Iraq, Switzerland, Germany and United Arab Emirates) •
Bengaluru International Film Festival •
Winner – Asian Cinema Competition Labour of Love (
Aditya Vikram Sengupta, India) •
Winner – Kannada Cinema Competition December-1 (
P. Sheshadri, India) •
Berlin International Film Festival •
Winner A Dream of Iron (
Kelvin Kyung Kun Park, South Korea) •
Winner Non-Fiction Diary (
Jung Yoon-suk, South Korea) •
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival •
Winner Wood Job! (
Shinobu Yaguchi, Japan) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Socialphobia (
Hong Seok-jae, South Korea) •
Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival •
Winner - Directors Showcase Competition Hustisya (
Joel Lamangan, the Philippines) •
Winner - New Breed Competition Bwaya (
Francis Pasion, the Philippines) •
Eurasia International Film Festival •
Winner Adventure (
Nariman Turebayev, Kazakhstan) •
Hanoi International Film Festival •
Winner The Coffin Maker (
Jason Paul Laxamana, the Philippines) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Titli (
Kanu Behl, India) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner – Asian Competition Summer, Kyoto (
Hiroshi Toda, Japan) •
Winner – Malayalam Competition Oraalppokkam (
Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, India) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner 28 (
Prasanna Jayakody, Sri Lanka) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner Tokyo Family (
Yoji Yamada, Japan) •
Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival •
Winner The Naked DJ (
Kan Lume, Singapore) •
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner Quick Change (
Eduardo W. Roy Jr., the Philippines) •
Moscow International Film Festival •
Winner Nagima (
Zhanna Issabaeva, Kazakhstan) •
Winner Eye Am (
Hakki Kurtulus and
Melik Saracoglu; Turkey, France) •
Pacific Meridian Film Festival •
Winner A Hard Day (
Kim Seong-hoon, South Korea) •
QCinema International Film Festival •
Winner – Best Feature Ang Di Paglimot sa Alaala (
Carl Joseph Papa, the Philippines) •
Winner – Best Short Film Ang Nanay ni Justin Barber! (
Victor Villanueva, the Philippines) •
Special Mention Senior (
Jed Medrano, the Philippines) •
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival •
Winner The Move (
Marat Sarulu, Kyrgyzstan) •
Toronto International Film Festival •
Winner Margarita, with a Straw (
Shonali Bose, India) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner The Ferry (
Shi Wei, China) •
Warsaw International Film Festival •
Winner 13 (
Hooman Seyedi, Iran)
2015 •
All Lights India International Film Festival •
Winner Mina Walking (
Yosef Baraki, Canada and Afghanistan) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Communication & Lies (
Lee Seung-Won, South Korea) •
Busan International Short Film Festival •
Winner Ketchup (
Yan Baishen,
Guo Chunning; China) •
Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival •
Winner – Short Film Wawa (
Angelie Mae Macalanda, the Philippines) •
Eurasia International Film Festival •
Winner Kunanbai (
Doskhan Zholzhaksynov, Kazakhstan) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner The Kids (
Sunny Yu, Taiwan) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner – Asian Competition Yona (
Nir Bergman, Israel) •
Winner – Malayalam Competition Ottaal (
Jayaraj, India) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Poet on a Business Trip (
Ju Anqi, China) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner Under the Sun (Seulki Ahn, Korea) •
Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival •
Winner Nay (
Djenar Maesa Ayu, Indonesia) •
Kolkata International Film Festival •
Winner Blanka (
Kohki Hasei; Japan, Italy, Philippines) •
Moscow International Film Festival •
Winner Being Good (
Mipo Oh, Japan) •
Winner Arventur (
Irina Evteeva, Russia) •
Pacific Meridian Film Festival •
Winner Shadow Behind the Moon (
Jun Lana, Philippines) •
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner Kaaka Muttai (
M. Manikandan, India) •
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival •
Winner Stranger (
Yeremek Tursunov, Kazakhstan) •
Toronto International Film Festival •
Winner The Whispering Star (
Sion Sono, Japan) •
QCinema International Film Festival •
Winner – Circle Competition for Filipino Films Sleepless (
Prime Cruz, the Philippines) •
Winner – DoQC Competition Crescent Rising (
Sheron Dayoc, the Philippines) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner The Monk (
The Maw Naing, Myanmar) •
Special Mention Chen Shiang-chyi in
Exit (
Chien Hsiang, Taiwan) •
Yakutsk International Film Festival •
Winner God Johogoi (
Sergei Potapov, Russia)
2016 •
All Lights India International Film Festival •
Winner Houra (
Gholamreza Sagharchian, Iran) •
Bengaluru International Film Festival •
Winner – Asian Cinema Competition Under Heaven (
Dalmira Tilepbergen, Kyrgyzstan) •
Winner – Asian Cinema Competition Thithi (
Raam Reddy, India) •
Winner – Kannada Cinema Competition Child of Debt (
Umashankar Swamy, India) •
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival •
Winner The Forest (
Paul Spurrier, Thailand) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Merry Christmas Mr. Mo (
Lim Dae-hyung, Korea) •
Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival •
Winner – Feature Film Pamilya Ordinaryo (
Eduardo Roy, Jr., the Philippines) •
Winner – Short Film Ang Maangas, Ang Marikit, at Ang Makata (
Jose Ibarra Guballa, the Philippines) •
Five Flavours Film Festival •
Winner Tharlo (
Pema Tseden, China) •
Hanoi International Film Festival •
Winner The Green Carriage (
Oleg Asadulin, Russia) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Knife in the Clear Water (
Wan Xuebo, China) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner – Asian Competition Cold of Kalandar (
Mustafa Kara, Turkey) •
Winner – Malayalam Competition Kammatipaadam (
Rajeev Ravi, India) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner The Plague at the Karatas Village (
Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Kazakhstan) •
Iranian Film Festival Australia •
Winner Life and a Day (
Saeed Roostaee, Iran) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner Spy Nation (
Choi Seung-ho, Korea) •
Jogja-Netpac Asian Film Festival •
Winner Turah (
Wicaksono Winsu Legowo, Indonesia) •
Kolkata International Film Festival •
Winner Singing in Graveyards (
Bradley Liew, Malaysia and the Philippines) •
Winner Lady of the Lake (
Haobam Pawan Kumar, India) •
Moscow International Film Festival •
Winner Sonita (
Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami, Iran) •
Pacific Meridian Film Festival •
Winner Immortal (
Seyed Hadi Mohaghegh, Iran) •
QCinema International Film Festival •
Winner – Circle Competition for Filipino Films Baboy Halas (
Bagane Fiola, the Philippines) •
Winner – QCShorts Competition ''
Papa's Shadows'' (
Inshallah Montero, the Philippines) •
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner Apprentice (
Boo Junfeng; Singapore, Germany, France, Hong Kong and Qatar) •
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival •
Winner Duet (
David Nanesh, Iran) •
Toronto International Film Festival •
Winner In Between (
Maysaloun Hamoud, Israel and France) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner Imbisibol (
Lawrence Fajardo, the Philippines) •
Special Mention Wednesday, May 9 (
Vahid Jalilvand, Iran) •
Warsaw International Film Festival •
Winner Blessed Benefit (
Mahmoud al Massad; Jordan, Germany, Netherlands and Qatar)
2017 •
Asian Film Festival Barcelona •
Winner Diamond Island (
Davy Chou; Cambodia, France, Germany, Thailand, Qatar) •
Special Mention Children of Genghis (
Zolbayar Dorj, Mongolia) •
Bengaluru International Film Festival •
Winner – Kannada Cinema Competition Uppina Kagada (
B. Suresha, India) •
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival •
Winner The Village of No Return (
Chen Yu-hsun; Taiwan, China) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner February (
Kim Joonghyun, South Korea) •
Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival •
Winner – Feature Film Respeto (
Alberto Monteras II, the Philippines) •
Winner – Short Film Aliens Ata (
Glenn Barit, the Philippines) •
Eurasia International Film Festival •
Winner Centaur (
Aktan Arym Kubat, Kazakhstan) •
Fajr International Film Festival •
Winner The Home (
Asghar Yousefinejad, Iran) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner One Thousand Ropes (
Tusi Tamasese, New Zealand) •
International Film Festival & Awards Macao •
Winner Angels Wear White (
Vivian Qu, Taiwan) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner – Asian Competition Newton (
Amit V Masurkar, India) •
Winner – Malayalam Competition Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum (
Dileesh Pothan, India) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Children are not Afraid of Death, Children are Afraid of Ghosts (
Rong Guang Rong, China) •
Iranian Film Festival Australia •
Winner Israfil (
Ida Panahandeh, Iran) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner ''
The Painter's View'' (
Kim Heecheol, South Korea) •
Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Indonesia •
Love and Shukla (original title
Haanduk;
Jatla Siddartha, India) •
Moscow International Film Festival •
Winner Ordinary Person (Kim Bong-han, South Korea) •
Pacific Meridian Film Festival •
Winner Nearest and Dearest (
Ksenia Zueva, Russia) •
QCinema International Film Festival •
Winner – Circle Competition for Filipino Films The Ashes and Ghost of Tayug 1931 (
Christopher Gozum, the Philippines) •
Winner – Asian Next Wave Competition Snow Woman (
Kiki Sugino, Japan) •
Winner – RainbowQC Competition Beach Rats (
Eliza Hittman, USA) •
Winner – QCShorts Competition Gikan Sa Ngitngit Nga Kinailadman (
Kiri Dalena, the Philippines) •
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner Malila: The Farewell Flower (
Anucha Boonyawatana, Thailand) •
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival •
Winner Goodbye, Grandpa! (
Yukihiro Morigaki, Japan) •
Toronto International Film Festival •
Winner The Great Buddha+ (
Huang Hsin-yao, Taiwan) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner Going the Distance (
Harumoto Yujiro, Japan) •
Warsaw International Film Festival •
Winner Out of Frame (
Wai Lun Kwok, China, Hong Kong)
2018 •
Asian Film Festival Barcelona •
Winner A Tiger in Winter (
Lee Kwang-kuk, South Korea) •
Bengaluru International Film Festival •
Winner – Asian Cinema Competition Excavator (
Lee Ju-hyoung, South Korea) •
Winner – Kannada Cinema Competition Beti (Daughter) (
P. Sheshadri, India) •
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival •
Winner The Hungry Lion (
Takaomi Ogata, Japan) •
Winner ''
I'm Crazy'' (
Masaaki Kudo, Japan) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner House of Hummingbird (
Kim Bora, South Korea) •
Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival •
Winner – Feature Film Kung Paano Hinihintay Ang Dapithapon (
Carlo Enciso Catu, the Philippines) •
Winner – Short Film Sa Saiyang Isla (
Christian Candelaria, the Philippines) •
Fajr International Film Festival •
Winner Hendi & Hormoz (
Abbas Amini; Iran, Czech Republic) •
Hanoi International Film Festival •
Winner Student A (
Lee Kyung-sup, South Korea) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Still Human (
Oliver Siu Kuen Chan, Hong Kong) •
International Film Festival & Awards Macao •
Winner Suburban Birds (
Qiu Sheng, China) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner Ee.Ma.Yau (
Lijo Jose Pellissery, India) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Nervous Translation (
Shireen Seno, the Philippines) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner Adulthood (
Kim Inseon, South Korea) •
Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival •
Winner The Song of Grassroots (
Yuda Kurniawan, Indonesia) •
Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival •
Winner Trembling Mountain (
Kesang Tseten Lama, Nepal) •
Kolkata International Film Festival •
Winner The Sweet Requiem (
Ritu Sarin &
Tenzing Sonam; India) •
Moscow International Film Festival •
Winner ''
China's Van Goghs'' (
Yu Haibo &
Yu Tianqi Kiki; China, the Netherlands) •
Pacific Meridian Film Festival •
Winner An Elephant Sitting Still (
Hu Bo, China) •
QCinema International Film Festival •
Winner – Circle Competition for Filipino Films Dog Days (
Timmy Harn, the Philippines) •
Shaken Aimanov International Film Festival •
Winner The Secret of a Leader (
Farkhat Sharipov, Kazakhstan) •
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner With All My Hypothalamus (
Dwein Baltazar, the Philippines) •
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival •
Winner Kejal (
Nima Salehiyar, Iran) •
Toronto International Film Festival •
Winner The Third Wife (
Ash Mayfair, Vietnam) •
Special Mention The Crossing (
Bai Xue, China) •
Ulju Mountain Film Festival •
Winner Trembling Mountain (
Kesang Tseten Lama, Nepal) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner The Taste of Rice Flower (
Pengfei, China) •
Winner Mothers (
Lee Dong-eun, South Korea) •
Special Mention A Letter to the President (
Roya Sadat, Afghanistan) •
Warsaw International Film Festival •
Winner The Fall (
Zhou Lidong, China)
2019 •
Asian Film Festival Barcelona •
Winner Father and Son (
Lương Đình Dũng, Vietnam) •
Asiatica Film Mediale •
Winner Flavours of Flesh (Biriyaani) (
Sajin Babu, India) •
Bengaluru International Film Festival •
Winner – Asian Cinema Competition Sivaranjini and other Women (
Vasanth, India) •
Winner – Kannada Cinema Competition Nathicharami (Mansore, India) •
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival •
Winner Gully Boy (
Zoya Akhtar, India) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Moving On (
Yoon Danbi, South Korea) •
Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival •
Winner – Feature Film John Denver Trending (
Arden Rod Condez, the Philippines) •
Winner – Short Film Disconnection Notice (
Glenn Averia, the Philippines) •
Special Mention – Short Film Sa Among Agwat (
Don Senoc, the Philippines) •
El Gouna Film Festival •
Winner Kabul, City in the Wind (
Aboozar Amini; Afghanistan, Netherlands, Japan, Germany) •
Eurasia International Film Festival •
Winner Beanpole (
Kantemir Balagov, Russia) •
Fajr International Film Festival •
Winner The Narrow Red Line (
Farzad Khoshdast, Iran) •
Hainan International Film Festival •
Winner Verdict (
Raymund Ribay Gutierrez, the Philippines) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Another Child (
Kim Yoon-seok, South Korea) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner – Asian Competition Aani Maani (
Fahim Irshad, India) •
Winner – Malayalam Competition Tress Under the Sun (
Dr. Biju, India) •
Special Mention – Malayalam Competition Kumbalangi Nights (
Madhu C Narayanan, India) •
International Film Festival and Awards Macao •
Winner To Live to Sing (
Johnny Ma, China) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Last Night I Saw You Smiling (
Kavich Neang; Cambodia, France) •
International Short and Independent Film Festival Dhaka •
Winner Fish Musing (
Suborna Senjutee Tushee; India, Bangladesh) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner The Harvest (
Misho Antadze, Georgia) •
Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival •
Winner Aurora (
Bekzat Pirmatov, Kyrgyzstan) •
Winner Nakorn-Sawan (
Puangsoi Aksornsawang, Thailand) •
Kolkata International Film Festival •
Winner Devi Aur Hero (
Aditya Kripalani, India) •
Moscow International Film Festival •
Winner The Sun Above Me Never Sets (
Lyubov Borisova, Russia) •
Pacific Meridian Film Festival •
Winner Great Poetry (
Alexander Lungin, Russia) •
QCinema International Film Festival •
Winner – Asian Next Wave Competition Suburban Birds (
Qiu Sheng, China) •
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner My Prince Edward (
Wong Yee-lam, Hong Kong) •
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival •
Winner Golden Voices (
Evgeny Ruman, Israel) •
Toronto International Film Festival •
Winner 1982 (
Oualid Mouaness; Lebanon, USA, Qatar, Norway) •
Ulju Mountain Film Festival •
Winner Beloved (
Yaser Talebi, Iran) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner A Family Tour (
Ying Liang; Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia) •
Warsaw Film Festival •
Winner Move the Grave (
Seung-o Jeong, South Korea)
2020 •
Asian Film Festival Barcelona •
Winner A Dark, Dark Man (
Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Kazakhstan) •
Asiatica Film Mediale •
Winner No Choice (
Reza Dormishian, Iran) •
Bengaluru International Film Festival •
Winner – Asian Cinema Competition Happy Old Year (
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, Thailand) •
Winner – Kannada Cinema Competition Pingara (Preetham R Shetty, India) •
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival •
Winner I WeirDo (
Liao Mingyi, Taiwan) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Fighter (
Jero Yun, South Korea) •
Busan International Short Film Festival •
Winner Adam (
Shoki Lin, Singapore) •
Winner Tiger and Ox (
Kim Seunghee, South Korea) •
Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival •
Winner – Short Film Tokwifi (
Carla Pulido Ocampo, the Philippines) •
El Gouna Film Festival •
Winner In Between Dying (
Hilal Baydarov; Azerbaijan, Mexico, United States) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Nasir (
Arun Karthick; India, Netherlands, Singapore) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs (
Pushpendra Singh, India) •
Pacific Meridian Film Festival •
Winner In Deep Sleep (
Maria Ignatenko, Russia) •
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner The Story of Southern Islet (
Chong Keat Aun, Malaysia) •
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival •
Winner Ulbolsyn (
Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Kazakhstan) •
Toronto International Film Festival •
Winner Gaza mon amour (
Tarzan Nasser &
Arab Nasser; Palestine, France, Germany, Portugal, Qatar) •
Ulju Mountain Film Festival •
Winner Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (
Pawo Choyning Dorji, Bhutan) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner Saturday Afternoon (
Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Bangladesh) •
Warsaw Film Festival •
Winner The Asadas (
Ryota Nakano, Japan)
2021 •
Asian Film Festival Barcelona •
Winner Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots (
Ryuhei Yoshino, Japan) •
Special Mention Cafe by the Highway (
Shi Xiaofan, China) •
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival •
Winner Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes (
Yamaguchi Junta, Japan) •
Busan International Short Film Festival •
Winner Georgia (
Jayil Pak; South Korea, USA) •
Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival •
Winner – Short Film The Little Planet (
Arjanmar H. Rebeta, the Philippines) •
El Gouna Film Festival •
Winner Captain Volkonogov Escaped (
Aleksey Chupov &
Natasha Merkulova; Russia, Estonia, France) •
Special Mention Once Upon a Time in Calcutta (
Aditya Vikram Sengupta; India, France, Norway) •
Fajr International Film Festival •
Winner Major (
Ehsan Abdipour, Iran) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Anima (
Cao Jinling, China) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner – Malayalam Competition Musical Chair (
Vipin Atley, India) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner Jazz Kissa Basie (
Hoshino Tetsuya, Japan) •
Kolkata International Film Festival •
Winner The Salt In Our Waters (
Rezwan Shahriar Sumit; Bangladesh, France) •
Moscow International Film Festival •
Winner Mosul my Home (
Adalet R. Garmiany, Iraq) •
QCinema International Film Festival •
Winner – QCShorts Competition Skylab (
Chuck Escasa, the Philippines) •
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner May You Stay Forever Young (
Rex Ren &
Lam Sam, Hong Kong) •
Toronto International Film Festival •
Winner Costa Brava, Lebanon (
Mounia Akl; Lebanon, France, Qatar, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, United States) •
Ulju Mountain Film Festival •
Winner Bandar Band (
Manijeh Hekmat, Iran) •
Warsaw Film Festival •
Winner Cinema Sabaya (
Orit Fokus Rotem, Israel) •
Special Mention YT (
Stepan Burnashev &
Dmitrii Davydov, Russia)
2022 •
Asian Film Festival Barcelona •
Winner Streetwise (
Na Jiazuo, China) •
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival •
Winner Office Royale (
Seki Kazuaki, Japan) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner A Wild Roomer (
Lee Jeong-hong, South Korea) •
Busan International Short Film Festival •
Winner The Boys Club (
Chen Yih Wen, Malaysia) •
Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival •
Winner – Feature Film 12 Weeks (
Anna Isabelle Matutina, the Philippines) •
Winner – Short Film Black Rainbow (
Zig Madamba Dulay; the Philippines, United States) •
Eurasia International Film Festival •
Winner Fire (
Aizhan Kasymbek, Kazakhstan) •
Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner Autobiography (
Makbul Mubarak; Indonesia, France, Germany, Poland, Singapore, Philippines, Qatar) •
Hanoi International Film Festival •
Winner Bone Marrow (
Hamid Reza Ghorbani, Iran) •
Winner The Villain Kontrabida (
Adolfo Alix Jr., Philippines) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner – Asian Competition Alam (
Firas Khoury; France, Tunisia, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Qatar) •
Winner – Malayalam Competition Ariyippu (
Mahesh Narayanan, India) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner Journey to the West (
Kong Dashan, China) •
Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival •
Winner Let Me Hear It Barefoot (
Riho Kudo, Japan) •
Kazan International Festival of Muslim Cinema •
Winner Silent Glory (
Nahid Hassanzadeh, Iran) •
Kolkata International Film Festival •
Winner Manikbabur Megh (
Abhinandan Banerjee, India) •
Winner Dov (
Muhiddin Muzaffar, Tajikistan) •
Moscow International Film Festival •
Winner Adim (Juboraj Shamim; Bangladesh, Netherlands) •
QCinema International Film Festival •
Winner – Asian Next Wave Competition Return to Seoul (
Davy Chou; France, Belgium, Germany, Cambodia) •
Winner – QCShorts Competition Luzonensis osteoporosis (
Glenn Barit, the Philippines) •
Toronto International Film Festival •
Winner Sweet As (
Jub Clerc, Australia) •
Ulju Mountain Film Festival •
Winner – Short Film Without You (
Park Jae-hyun, South Korea) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner Aloners (
Hong Sung-eun, South Korea) •
Warsaw Film Festival •
Winner ''
Ademoka's Education'' (
Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Kazakhstan)
2023 •
Asian Film Festival Barcelona •
Winner The Baseball Player (
Carlo Obispo, the Philippines) •
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival •
Winner Hungry Ghost Diner (
Cho We Jun, Malaysia) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Solids by the Seashore (
Patiparn Boontarig, Thailand) •
Busan International Short Film Festival •
Winner Graveyard of Horses (
Xiaoxuan Jiang, China) •
Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival •
Winner – Feature Film The Missing (
Carl Joseph Papa, the Philippines) •
Winner – Short Film Hinakdal (
Arvin Belarmino, the Philippines) •
Danang Asian Film Festival •
Winner – Best Vietnamese Film Memento Mori: Earth (
Marcus Mang Cuong Vu, Vietnam) •
El Gouna Film Festival •
Winner From Abdul to Leila (
Leila Al Bayaty; Germany, Belgium, Saudi Arabia) •
Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner Fly Me to the Moon (
Sasha Chuk, Hong Kong) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner If Only I Could Hibernate (
Zoljargal Purevdashi; France, Mongolia) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner – Asian Competition Sunday (
Shokir Kholikov, Uzbekistan) •
Winner – Malayalam Competition Aattam (
Anand Ekarshi, India) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Whispering Mountains (
Jagath Manuwarna, Sri Lanka) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner Stonewalling (
Huang Ji and
Ryuji Otsuka, Japan) •
Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival •
Winner Rapture (
Dominic Sangma; India, China, Switzerland, Netherlands, Qatar) •
Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival •
Winner Which Colour? (
Shahrukhkhan Chavada, India) •
Kolkata International Film Festival •
Winner Broken Dreams: Stories from the Myanmar Coup (
The Ninefold Mosaic, Myanmar) •
QCinema International Film Festival •
Winner Mimang (
Kim Tae-yang, South Korea) •
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival •
Winner Inpaintings (
Ozan Yoleri, Turkey) •
Toronto International Film Festival •
Winner A Match (
Jayant Digambar Somalkar, India) •
Venice Film Festival •
Winner Shadow of Fire (
Shinya Tsukamoto, Japan) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner Cold As Marble (
Asif Rustamov, Azerbaijan) •
Warsaw Film Festival •
Winner Ani Choying Drolma: Mission Impossible (
F. Jennifer Lin and
Shan Bai, Hong Kong)
2024 •
Asian Film Festival Barcelona •
Winner Hollywoodgate (
Ibrahim Nash’at; Afghanistan, Germany) •
Bastau International Film Festival •
Winner Vaziyet (
Ufuk Gürbüzdal, Türkiye) •
Bengaluru International Film Festival •
Winner Swathi Mutthina Male Haniye (
Raj B. Shetty, India) •
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival •
Winner Who’ll Stop the Rain (
Su I-hsuan, Taiwan) •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner The Land Of Morning Calm (
Park Ri-woong, South Korea) •
Busan International Short Film Festival •
Winner Minus One (
Omer Ferhat Ozmen, Turkey) •
Cairo International Film Festival •
Winner Brief History of a Family (
Lin Jianjie; China, France, Denmark, Qatar) •
Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival •
Winner – Feature Film Tumandok (
Richard Jeroui Salvadico and
Arlie Sweet Sumagaysay, the Philippines) •
Winner – Short Film Abogbaybay (
P. R. Monencillo, the Philippines) •
Danang Asian Film Festival •
Winner – Best Vietnamese Film Face Off 7: One Wish (
Lý Hải, Vietnam) •
El Gouna Film Festival •
Winner We Are Inside (
Farah Kassem; Lebanon, Qatar, Denmark) •
Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner Montages of a Modern Motherhood (
Oliver Chan, Hong Kong) •
Hanoi International Film Festival •
Winner Liar (
Yuliya Trofimova, Russia) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Sister Midnight (
Karan Kandahari; India, Sweden, United Kingdom) •
International Film Festival of Kerala •
Winner – Asian Competition Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others (
Farshad Hashemi; Czech Republic, Germany, Iran) •
Winner – Malayalam Competition Feminichi Fathima (
Fasil Muhammed, India) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust (
Ishan Shukla; India, France, Germany) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner Punch Drunk (
Adel Tabrizi), Iran) •
Kolkata International Film Festival •
Winner ''
Dolls Don't Die'' (
Ranajit Ray, India) •
Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival •
Winner Girls Will Be Girls (
Shuchi Talati; India, France) •
Special Mention Agent of Happiness (
Arun Bhattarai and
Dorottya Zurbó; Bhutan, Hungary) •
Special Mention Shambhala (
Min Bahadur Bham; Nepal, France, Norway, Hong Kong, China, Turkey, Taiwan, United States, Qatar) •
Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival •
Winner:
MA - Cry of Silence (
The Maw Naing; Myanmar, South Korea, Singapore, France, Norway, Qatar) •
Moscow International Film Festival •
Winner We Should Make Movies About Love (
Roman Mikhailov; Russia, India) •
Special Mention Cold Sigh (
Nahid Azizi Sedigh, Iran) •
Pingyao International Film Festival •
Winner – Best First Film Floating Clouds Obscure The Sun (
Shen Tao, China) •
QCinema International Film Festival •
Winner – Best Asian First Film Cu Li Never Cries (
Pham Ngoc Lan; Vietnam, Singapore, France, Philippines, Norway) •
Toronto International Film Festival •
Winner The Last of the Sea Women (
Sue Kim, United States) •
Ulju Mountain Film Festival •
Winner After the Snowmelt (
Lo Yi-Shan; Taiwan, Japan) •
Venice Film Festival •
Winner Mistress Dispeller (
Elizabeth Lo; United States, China) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner Scream (
Kenzhebek Shaikakov, Kazakhstan) •
Warsaw Film Festival •
Winner Black Dog (
Guan Hu, China)
2025 •
Busan International Film Festival •
Winner Malika (
Natalia Uvarova; Kazakhstan, Moldova, Ireland) •
Cairo International Film Festival •
Winner The Botanist (
Jing Yi, Kazakhstan) •
Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival •
Winner – Feature Film Republika ng Pipolipinas (
Renei Dimla, the Philippines) •
Winner – Short Film Hasang (
Daniel de la Cruz, the Philippines) •
Danang Asian Film Festival •
Winner – Best Vietnamese Film The Real Sister (
Khuong Ngoc, Vietnam) •
El Gouna Film Festival •
Winner - Best Asian Documentary Always (
Chen Deming; US, France, China) •
Winner - Best Asian Narrative Shadowbox (
Tanushree Das,
Saumyananda Sahi; India, France, US, Spain) •
Golden Horse Film Festival •
Winner MAG MAG (
Yuriyan Retriever, Japan) •
Hawaii International Film Festival •
Winner Kōkā (
Kath Akuhata-Brown, New Zealand) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner Bad Girl (
Varsha Bharath, India) •
Jeonju International Film Festival •
Winner Black Ox (
Tsuta Tetsuichiro; Japan, Taiwan, United States) •
Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival •
Winner:
Becoming Human (
Polen Ly, Cambodia) •
Kolkata International Film Festival •
Winner Victoria (
Sivaranjini J., India) •
Moscow International Film Festival •
Winner Ha Lyngkha Bneng (
Pradip Kurbah, India) •
Pingyao International Film Festival •
Winner – Best First Film Daughters (
Miao Zhuangzhuang, China) •
QCinema International Film Festival •
Winner – Best Asian First Film On Your Lap (
Reza Rahadian, Indonesia) •
Toronto International Film Festival •
Winner In Search of The Sky (
Jitank Singh Gurjar, India) •
Venice Film Festival •
Winner Hijra (
Shahad Ameen; Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, UK) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner Abel (
Elzat Eskendir, Kazakhstan) •
Winner – Aruna Vasudev NETPAC Award for Best Asia Pacific Film 2024 All We Imagine as Light (
Payal Kapadia; France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy)
2026 •
Bengaluru International Film Festival •
Winner Hakkighagi (
Garghee Karehaiklu, India) •
International Film Festival Rotterdam •
Winner i grew an inch when my father died (
P. R. Monencillo Patindol, the Philippines) •
Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema •
Winner Before the Bright Day (
Tsao Shih-han, Taiwan) •
Winner – Aruna Vasudev NETPAC Award for Best Asia Pacific Film 2025 No Other Choice (
Park Chan-wook, South Korea) ==See also==