The Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) is a worldwide organization of 29 member countries. It was created as the result of a conference on Asian cinema organized by Cinemaya, the Asian Film Quarterly, in

New Delhi New Delhi (; ) is the Capital city, capital of India and a part of the Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the Government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Parliament ...

in 1990 at the instance and with the support of UNESCO, Paris. Headquartered in

Singapore Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. The country's territory comprises one main island, 63 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. It is about one degree ...

, the NETPAC is a pan-Asian film cultural organization involving critics, filmmakers, festival organizers and curators, distributors and exhibitors, as well as film educators. It is considered a leading authority on Asian cinema. Since 1990, it has programmed Asian sections of international film festivals, introduced filmmakers from Asia to the world, brought out a compendium of the existing film infrastructure in different Asian countries, organized seminars and conferences and instituted an award for the Best Asian Film at festivals like Singapore, Busan, Jeonju, Kerala, Kazakhstan and Osian's Cinefan among those in Asia; Berlin, Locarno, Karlovy Vary, Rotterdam, Vesoul and others in Europe; at Brisbane in Australia; Hawaii in the US; Antalya in Turkey and Black Nights in Estonia. The NETPAC Award is given at select international film festivals to promote Asian cinema by spotlighting exceptional films and discovering new talents. Among filmmakers who have won this award more than twice are Sri Lanka's Prasanna Vithanage (5 times); Kazakhstan's Adilkhan Yerzhanov (4 times); China's

Wang Xiaoshuai Wang Xiaoshuai (; born May 22, 1966) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the "Sixth Generation" of the Cinema of China. Like others in this gen ...

(thrice) and Hao Jie (thrice); the Philippines' Lav Diaz (thrice) and

Brillante Mendoza Brillante Mendoza (; born July 30, 1960), also known as Dante Mendoza, is a Filipino independent filmmaker. Mendoza is known one of the key members associated with the Philippine New Wave. Career Mendoza was born and raised in San Fernando, ...

(thrice); Malaysia's Ho Yuhang (thrice); and South Korea's

Kim Ki-duk Kim Ki-duk ( ; 20 December 196011 December 2020) was a South Korean film director and screenwriter, noted for his Idiosyncrasy, idiosyncratic Art film, art-house cinematic works. His films have received many distinctions in the festival circuit ...

(thrice).

NETPAC Award winners

1993

* Singapore International Film Festival ** Winner ''The Peach Blossom Land'' ( Stan Lai,

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocea ...

)

1994

Berlin International Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival (), usually called the Berlinale (), is an annual film festival held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europ ...

** Winner '' All Under the Moon'' ( Yoichi Sai, Japan) ** Special Mention '' Shackles'' ( Nansalmaagin Uranchimeg, Mongolia) * Singapore International Film Festival ** Winner '' The Servile'' (

Adoor Gopalakrishnan Adoor Gopalakrishnan (born 3 July 1941) is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer and is regarded as one of the most notable and renowned filmmakers in India. With the release of his first feature film '' Swayamvaram'' (1972), G ...

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

)

1995

** Winner ''

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'' ( Shunji Iwai, Japan) ** Winner '' Elephant Song'' ( Go Riju, Japan) *

International Film Festival Rotterdam International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, focused on independent and experimental films. The inaugural festival took place in June 1972, ...

** Winner '' The Servile'' (

) * Singapore International Film Festival ** Winner ''A Borrowed Life'' ( Wu Nien-jen,

) ** Special Mention ''

Mee Pok Man ''Mee Pok Man'' is a 1995 Singaporean film directed by Eric Khoo. The film is Eric Khoo's debut feature, released under his film production company, Zhao Wei Films, after making award-winning short films for years. It was entered into the 19th ...

'' (

Eric Khoo Eric Khoo Kim Hai (born 27 March 1965) is a Singaporean film director and producer who is often credited for the revival of the Singapore modern film industry. Early life and education Born on 27 March 1965 in Singapore, Eric Khoo was the younge ...

)

1996

** Winner '' ...And the Moon Dances'' ( Garin Nugroho, Indonesia) ** Special Mention '' Heaven-6-Box'' ( Hiroyuki Oki, Japan) *

Busan International Film Festival The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF; ), formerly the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF), held annually in Haeundae District, Busan, South Korea, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. The first festival, held fro ...

** Winner '' Three Friends'' ( Yim Soon-rye,

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

) *

** Winner '' Heartbreak Island'' ( Hsu Hsiao-ming,

) ** Winner '' Nostalgia for Home Country'' ( Nhat Minh Dang,

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

) * Singapore International Film Festival ** Winner '' Good Men, Good Women'' (

Hou Hsiao-hsien Hou Hsiao-hsien ( zh, t=侯孝賢, poj=Hâu Hàu-hiân; born 8 April 1947) is a retired Mainland Chinese-born Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema mo ...

) ** Special Mention '' It's a Long Way to the Sea'' (

Jahnu Barua Jahnu Barua (born 1952) is an Indian film director. He has written and directed a number of Assamese language, Assamese and Hindi films. Some of his notable films are ''Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai'' (1987), ''Firingoti'' (1992), ''Xagoroloi B ...

North India North India is a geographical region, loosely defined as a cultural region comprising the northern part of India (or historically, the Indian subcontinent) wherein Indo-Aryans (speaking Indo-Aryan languages) form the prominent majority populati ...

)

1997

* Amiens International Film Festival ** Winner '' Somersault in a Coffin'' ( Derviş Zaim, Turkey) *

** Winner ''

Focus Focus (: foci or focuses) may refer to: Arts * Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the Adelaide Fringe arts festival in East Australia Film *Focus (2001 film), ''Focus'' (2001 film), a 2001 film based on the Arthur Miller novel *Focus (2015 ...

'' ( Satoshi Izaka, Japan) *

** Winner '' Bad Movie'' ( Jang Sun-woo,

) *

** Winner '' 2 Duo'' (

Nobuhiro Suwa is a Japanese film director working in Japan and France. His directorial works and screenplays often make use of improvisation techniques. Currently, Suwa is the President of Tokyo Zokei University. Biography Having graduated from Hiroshim ...

, Japan) * Singapore International Film Festival ** Winner ''

12 Storeys ''12 Storeys'' (十二樓 or ''Shí'èr lóu'' in Mandarin) is a 1997 Singaporean drama film written and directed by Eric Khoo. It features an ensemble cast of Jack Neo, Koh Boon Pin and Quan Yi Fong. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard se ...

'' (

) ** Special Mention '' The Long Journey'' ( Lê Hoàng, Vietnam)

1998

* Amiens International Film Festival ** Winner '' Walls Within'' ( Prasanna Vithanage, Sri Lanka) *

** Winner '' The Pickpocket'' (

Jia Zhangke Jia Zhangke ( zh, s=贾樟柯, born 24 May 1970) is a Chinese film and television director, screenwriter, producer, actor and writer. He is the founder of Pingyao International Film Festival, dean of the Shanxi Film Academy of Shanxi Media Co ...

, China) *

** Winner '' The Power of Kangwon Province'' (

Hong Sang-soo Hong Sang-soo (Korean language, Korean: 홍상수; born 25 October 1960) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. An acclaimed and prolific filmmaker, Hong is known for his Slow cinema, slow-paced films about love affairs and everyday d ...

) ** Special Mention '' A Killing Story'' ( Yeo Kyun-Dong, South Korea) *

** Winner '' Dance of the Wind'' ( Rajan Khosa, India) ** Special Mention '' Green Fish'' (

Lee Chang-dong Lee Chang-dong (; born July 4, 1954) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, and novelist. He has directed six feature films: ''Green Fish'' (1997), ''Peppermint Candy (film), Peppermint Candy'' (1999), ''Oasis (2002 film), Oasis'' (2002) ...

) * Singapore International Film Festival ** Winner '' In the Navel of the Sea'' (

Marilou Diaz-Abaya Marilou Correa Diaz-Abaya (née Diaz; March 30, 1955 – October 8, 2012) was a Filipina multi-award winning film director. She was posthumously conferred the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts in 2022, sh ...

, the

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

) ** Special Mention '' Hold You Tight'' (

Stanley Kwan Stanley Kwan (traditional Chinese: 關錦鵬; simplified Chinese: 关锦鹏); born 9 October 1957) is a Hong Kong film director and producer. He first landed a job at TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist Colle ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

) * Taiwan International Documentary Festival ** Winner '' Out for Love...Be Back Shortly'' ( Dan Katzir,

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

) ** Special Mention '' Nadya's Village'' ( Seiichi Motohashi,

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

)

1999

* Amiens International Film Festival ** Winner '' Death On A Full Moon Day'' ( Prasanna Vithanage, Sri Lanka) *

** Winner ''2H'' (Ying Li, China) ** Winner '' Dil Se..'' (

Mani Ratnam Gopalaratnam Subramaniam (born 2 June 1956), known professionally as Mani Ratnam, is an Indian film director, film producer and screenwriter who predominantly works in Tamil cinema and a few Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. H ...

) *

** Winner '' The Bird Who Stops in the Air'' ( Jeon Soo-il, South Korea) ** Special Mention '' The Uprising'' (

Park Kwang-Su Park Kwang-su (born January 22, 1955) is a South Korean filmmaker. He was born in Sokcho, Gangwon Province and grew up in Busan. Park joined the Yallasung Film Group as a student of Fine Arts at Seoul National University. Upon graduation, he fo ...

, 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 Aktan Arym Kubat (; born March 26, 1957, Sokuluk District, Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, Kirghiz SSR), also known as Aktan Abdykalykov, is a Kyrgyzstani Film director, director, screenwriter and Film actor, actor. Member of the National Film ...

, Kyrgyzstan) ** Special Mention '' The Power of the Kangwon-du Province'' (

, South Korea) *

** Winner ''The Servant's Shirt'' ( Mani Kaul,

) * 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) *

** Winner '' The Lady of the House'' (

Rituparno Ghosh Rituparno Ghosh (; 31 August 1963 – 30 May 2013) was an Indian film director, actor, writer and lyricist. After pursuing a degree in economics, he started his career as a creative artist at an advertising agency. He received recognition for h ...

) ** Winner ''

Nabbie's Love is a Japanese film written and directed by Yuji Nakae, released in 1999. The story follows the character of Nanako (Naomi Nishida), who quits her job in Tokyo to return home to Okinawa. The film is set on Aguni Island, where Nanako visits her g ...

'' (

Yuji Nakae is a Japanese film director who specializes in films set in Okinawa, featuring Okinawan music, language, themes and atmosphere. He shared the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award for his debut film, '' Pineapple Tours'', which was an om ...

, Japan) ** Special Mention '' Making Sun-Dried Red Peppers'' ( Jang Hee-Sun, South Korea) *

** Winner '' Chunhyang'' (

Im Kwon-taek Im Kwon-taek (; born December 8, 1934) is one of South Korea's most renowned film directors. In an active and prolific career, his films have won many domestic and international film festival awards, as well as considerable box-office success, ...

, South Korea) * Dhaka International Film Festival ** Winner '' Padadaya'' ( Linton Semage, Sri Lanka) ** Winner '' Saroja'' ( Somaratne Dissanayake, Sri Lanka) *

Hawaii International Film Festival Hawaii ( ; ) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only state not on the North American mainland, th ...

** Winner '' Breaking the Silence'' ( Zhou Sun, China) ** Special Mention '' Spinning Gasing'' ( Teck Tan, Malaysia) *

** Winner '' Nang Nak'' ( Nonzee Nimibutr,

Thailand Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Mainland Southeast Asia, Indochinese Peninsula. With a population of almost 66 million, it spa ...

) ** Winner ''

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'' ( Ding Jiancheng,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

) *

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (, KVIFF) is an annual film festival held in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. The Karlovy Vary Festival is one of the oldest in the world and has become Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Eur ...

** Winner '' Yi Yi'' ( Edward Yang, Taiwan) ** Special Mention '' Peppermint Candy'' (

, South Korea) * Singapore International Film Festival ** Winner '' Darkness and Light'' ( Chang Tso-chi, Taiwan) ** Winner '' So Close to Paradise'' (

, China) * Taiwan International Documentary Festival ** Winner '' Alone'' ( Dmitry Kabakov,

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

) ** Special Mention '' Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi'' ( Avi Mograbi,

) ** Special Mention '' The Lost Kingdom'' ( Lee Hsiang-Hsiu,

) *

Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the ...

** Winner '' Platform'' (

, China) ** Special Mention ''

The Isle ''The Isle'' is a 2000 South Korean film written and directed by Kim Ki-duk, his fourth film, and the first to receive wide international acclaim for his now recognizable style. The film has gained notoriety for gruesome scenes that caused some v ...

'' (

)

2001

** Winner '' Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine'' ( Bahman Farmanara,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

) ** Special Mention ''Wharf of Widows'' ( Trong Ninh Luu,

) * Brisbane International Film Festival ** Winner '' What Time Is It There?'' (

Tsai Ming-liang Tsai Ming-liang (; born 27 October 1957) is a Malaysian filmmaker based in Taiwan. Tsai has written and directed 11 feature films, many short films, and television films. He is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of T ...

, Taiwan) ** Special Mention '' The Wrestlers'' ( Buddhadeb Dasgupta, India) *

** Winner '' Take Care of My Cat'' ( Jeong Jae-eun, South Korea) ** Special Mention '' Bad Guy'' (

, South Korea) ** Special Mention '' Waikiki Brothers'' ( Yim Soon-rye, South Korea) * Cinefan Asian Film Festival ** Winner ''

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'' ( 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) *

** Winner '' Devils on the Doorstep'' ( Jiang Wen, China) ** Special Mention '' The Day Toshi was Born'' ( Hikaru Yoshikawa, Japan) *

** Winner '' Daughters of the Sun'' ( Maryam Shahriar,

) ** Special Mention '' The House of Guavas'' ( Dang Nhat Minh,

) * Jakarta International Film Festival ** Winner – Short Film '' The Greatest Day Dreamer'' ( Liew Wai Ming, Singapore) ** Special Mention ''

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'' ( Chung Fa Yang, Taiwan) *

** Winner '' Under the Skin of the City'' ( Rakhshan Bani-Etemad, Iran) ** Special Mention '' Firefly Dreams'' (

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, Japan) * Singapore International Film Festival ** Winner '' A Poet'' ( Garin Nugroho, Indonesia) ** Special Mention '' This is My Moon'' ( Asoka Handagama, Sri Lanka) *

** Winner ''

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'' ( Babak Payami,

) ** 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 Apichatpong Weerasethakul (; ; , born 16 July 1970) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, film producer and Professor at Tama Art University in Tokyo. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Apichatpong h ...

, Thailand)

2002

** Winner '' Chen Mo and Meiting'' ( Liu Hao, China) ** Special Mention '' Fish and Elephant'' ( Li Yu, China) * Brisbane International Film Festival ** Winner ''

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'' (

Zhu Wen Emperor Taizu of Later Liang (), personal name Zhu Quanzhong () (December 5, 852 – July 18, 912), né Zhu Wen (), name later changed to Zhu Huang (), nickname Zhu San (朱三, literally, "the third Zhu"), was a Chinese military general, mona ...

, China) ** Special Mention '' Whispering Sands'' ( Nan T. Achnas, Indonesia) *

** Winner ''

Road Movie A road movie is a film genre, genre of film in which the main characters leave home on a road trip, typically altering the perspective from their everyday lives. Road movies often depict travel in the hinterlands, with the films exploring the the ...

'' ( Kim Insik, South Korea) * Cinefan Asian Film Festival ** Winner '' Lan Yu'' (

, Hong Kong) * Cinemanila International Film Festival ** Winner '' Hollywood Hong Kong'' (

Fruit Chan Fruit Chan Gor (; born 15 April 1959) is a Hong Kong filmmaker who is best known for his style of film reflecting the everyday life of Demographics of Hong Kong, Hong Kong people. He is well known for using amateur actors (such as Sam Lee (ac ...

, Hong Kong) ** Special Mention ''

Harmful Insect is a 2002 Japanese drama film directed by Akihiko Shiota and starring Aoi Miyazaki. Cast * Aoi Miyazaki as Sachiko Kita * Seiichi Tanabe as Ogata * Ryo as Toshiko Kita * Yū Aoi as Natsuko Yamaoka * Tetsu Sawaki as Takao * Ryo Amamiya as T ...

'' ( Akihiko Shiota, Japan) *

** Winner '' Eyes of a Beauty'' ( Hu Guan, China) *

** Winner ''Wave'' ( Hiroshi Okuhara, Japan) ** Special Mention ''

'' ( Babak Payami,

) *

Locarno International Film Festival The Locarno International Film Festival is a major international film festival, held annually in Locarno, Switzerland. Founded in 1946, the festival screens films in various competitive and non-competitive sections, including feature-length narr ...

** 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 Mohammad Rivai "Riri" Riza (born October 2, 1970) is an Indonesian film director, film producer, producer, and screenwriter, writer. He is notable for his directorial work on ''Petualangan Sherina'' (''Sherina's Adventure''; 2000), ''Gie'' (2005) ...

, Indonesia) ** Special Mention '' I-San Special'' ( Mingmongkol Sonakul, Thailand) * Taiwan International Documentary Festival ** Winner '' Sky-blue Hometown'' ( Kim So-young,

)

2003

Bangkok International Film Festival The Bangkok International Film Festival (BKKIFF) () is an international film festival held annually in Bangkok, Thailand, since 2003. In addition to film screenings, seminars, gala events and the Golden Kinnaree Awards. History First years The ...

** Winner ''A Tale of a Naughty Girl'' ( Buddhadeb Dasgupta, India) *

** Winner ''Blessing Bell'' ( Hiroyuki Tanaka, Japan) ** Special Mention '' Bird-Man Tale'' ( Garin Nugroho,

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

) * Brisbane International Film Festival ** Winner ''

Oasis In ecology, an oasis (; : oases ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environment Lee Chang-dong Lee Chang-dong (; born July 4, 1954) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, and novelist. He has directed six feature films: ''Green Fish'' (1997), ''Peppermint Candy (film), Peppermint Candy'' (1999), ''Oasis (2002 film), Oasis'' (2002) ...

, South Korea) ** Special Mention '' Letters in the Wind'' ( Ali Reza Aminal, Iran) *

** Winner ''

Untold Scandal ''Untold Scandal'' (; "Scandal: The Love Story of Men and Women in Joseon") is a 2003 South Korean historical film, historical romantic drama film directed by E J-yong, and starring Bae Yong-joon, Jeon Do-yeon, and Lee Mi-sook. Loosely based on t ...

'' (

E J-yong E J-yong (; born September 5, 1966) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. His feature films include ''An Affair'' (1998), ''Untold Scandal'' (2003), ''Dasepo Naughty Girls'' (2006), and ''Actresses (film), Actresses'' (2009). Early ...

, South Korea) * Cinefan Asian Film Festival ** Winner '' Drifters'' (

, China) * Cinemanila International Film Festival ** Winner ''

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'' (

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, Palestine) ** Special Mention '' Dekada '70'' (

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, the Philippines) *

** Winner '' The Coast Guard'' (

, South Korea) *

** Winner '' Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring'' (

, South Korea) * Singapore International Film Festival ** Winner '' 15 – The Movie'' ( Royston Tan, Singapore) ** Special Mention ''

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'' ( Jia Zhang-ke,

) * Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema ** Winner '' Cry Woman'' ( Liu Bingjian, China)

2004

** Winner '' South of the Clouds'' (

, China) ** Special Mention ''

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'' ( Rakesh Sharma, India) * Brisbane International Film Festival ** Winner '' The River's End'' ( Behrooz Afkhami, Iran) *

** Winner ''

3-Iron ''3-Iron'' () is a 2004 romantic drama film written, produced and directed by Kim Ki-duk. An international co-production between South Korea and Japan, the film stars Jae Hee as a young drifter who develops a relationship with an abused house ...

'' (

, South Korea and Japan) ** Special Mention '' So Cute'' ( Kim Su-hyeon,

) * Cinemanila International Film Festival ** Winner '' Min'' ( Ho Yuhang, Malaysia) * Dhaka International Film Festival ** Winner '' Swaraaj – The Little Republic'' ( Anwar Jamal, India) *

** Winner '' Peep 'TV' Show'' ( Yutaka Tsuchiya, Japan) ** Honorable Mention '' Rewind'' ( Hak-son Kim, South Korea) *

** Winner ''The Missing'' ( Lee Kang-sheng,

) ** Special Mention ''

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'' ( Diao Yi'nan China) *

** 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

** Winner '' This Charming Girl'' (

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) * Brisbane International Film Festival ** Winner '' Spying Cam'' ( Hwang Chul-min, South Korea) ** Special Mention '' Boat out of Watermelon Rinds'' ( Ahmet Ulucay, Turkey) *

** Winner '' The Unforgiven'' (

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, South Korea) *

** Winner '' Season of the Horse'' ( Ning Cai, Mongolia) *

** Winner ''Sanctuary'' ( Ho Yuhang,

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) *

** Winner '' So Much Rice'' ( Li Hongqi, China) ** Winner '' The Rising - Ballad of Mangal Pandey'' (

Ketan Mehta Ketan Mehta (born 21 July 1952) is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter who has also directed documentaries and television serials since 1975. Early life and education Born on 21 July 1952 in Navsari in Gujarat, Mehta did his sch ...

, 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 ''Earth and Ashes'' () is a 2004 Afghan film directed and co-written by Atiq Rahimi, based on his book of the same name which was published in 2000. It was Afghanistan's submission to the 77th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign ...

'' (

Atiq Rahimi Atiq Rahimi () (born 26 February 1962 in Kabul) is a France, French-Afghanistan, Afghan writer and filmmaker. Life Atiq Rahimi was born in 1962 in Kabul to a senior public servant and attended high school in Lycée Esteqlal. Following the Soviet ...

, Afghanistan) *

** Winner '' 13 Tzameti'' ( Géla Babluani,

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) * Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema ** Winner '' Two Great Sheep'' ( Liu Hao, China)

2006

** Winner '' Dear Pyongyang'' ( Yang Yong-hi, Japan) * Brisbane International Film Festival ** Winner '' Blood Rain'' ( Kim Dae-seung, South Korea) *

** Winner '' The Last Dining Table'' ( Roh Gyeong-tae, South Korea) *

** Winner '' 4:30'' ( Royston Tan, Singapore) *

** Winner ''The Lost Hum'' ( Hiromasa Hirosue, Japan) ** Winner '' The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros'' (

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, the Philippines) *

** Winner '' Don't Look Back'' ( Kim Young-Nam, South Korea) ** Winner ''

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'' ( 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 Ying Liang (; born 1977) is a Chinese independent film director and screenwriter. Biography Ying Liang graduated from the Department of Directing at the Chongqing Film Academy and Beijing Normal University. His short film ''The Missing House'' ...

, China) * Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival ** Winner ''Kargaran Mashghoule Karand'' ( Mani Haghighi,

) * Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema ** Winner '' Gilane'' ( Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab, Iran)

2007

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** Winner '' Yumurta'' (

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, Turkey) ** Winner '' Under the Bombs'' ( Philippe Aractingi, Lebanon) * Asiatica Film Mediale ** Winner '' Pure Coolness'' ( Ernest Abdyjaparov, Kyrgyzstan) *

** Winner ''Faces of a Fig Tree'' ( Kaori Momoi, Japan) ** Winner ''Tuli'' (

) * Brisbane International Film Festival ** Winner '' The Bet Collector'' ( Jeffrey Jeturian, the Philippines) *

** Winner '' With the Girl of Black Soil'' ( Jeon Soo-il, South Korea) ** Winner '' Hello Stranger'' ( Kim Donghyun, South Korea) * Eurasia International Film Festival ** Winner ''

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'' ( Abai Kulbai, Kazakhstan) *

** Winner '' Owl and the Sparrow'' (

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, Vietnam) *

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** Winner – Asian Competition '' Getting Home'' ( Zhang Yang, China) ** Winner – Malayalam Competition '' Ore Kadal'' ( Shyamaprasad, India) *

** Winner ''Fourteen'' ( Hiromasa Hirosue, Japan) ** Special Mention ''Dancing Bells'' ( Deepak Kumaran Menon, Malaysia) ** Special Mention '' How Is Your Fish Today?'' ( Xiaolu Guo; China, UK) *

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** Winner ''Summer Heat'' (

, the Philippines) *

** Winner ''

The Band's Visit ''The Band's Visit'' () is a 2007 comedy-drama film written and directed by Eran Kolirin, and starring Saleh Bakri, Ronit Elkabetz, Sasson Gabai and Uri Gavriel. It is an international co-production between Israel, France and the United Sta ...

'' (''Bikur hatizmoret'') ( Eran Kolirin, Israel) *

** 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'' (

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, 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'' (

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, Japan) * Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema ** Winner '' Kantatar'' ( Bappaditya Bandopadhyay,

)

2008

** Winner '' Sonbahar'' ( Özcan Alper, Turkey) * Asiatica Film Mediale ** Winner ''

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'' (

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, Japan) ** Winner '' Songs from the Southern Seas'' ( Marat Sarulu, Kazakhstan) *

** Winner ''

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'' ( Kōji Wakamatsu, Japan) ** Special Mention '' Paruthiveeran'' ( Ameer Sultan, India) * Brisbane International Film Festival ** Winner '' Foster Child'' (

, the Philippines) *

** 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) *

** Winner '' Brutus, Ang Paglalakbay'' ( Tara Illenberger, the Philippines) *

** Winner ''

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'' (

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, South Korea) ** Winner '' Tulpan'' ( Sergey Dvortsevoy, Kazakhstan) *

** Winner – Asian Competition '' My Marlon and Brando'' ( Hüseyin Karabey, Turkey) ** Winner – Malayalam Competition '' Adayalangal'' ( M.G. Sasi, India) *

** Winner '' What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?!'' ( Doze Niu,

) ** Special Mention ''

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'' ( Wang Bing,

) *

** Winner ''Children of God'' ( Yi Seung-jun, Korea) ** Winner ''Death in the Land of Enacantos'' ( Lav Diaz, the Philippines) *

** 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'' (

, 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'' (

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, China)

2009

** Winner ''

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'' (

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, South Korea) * Asian Film Festival Barcelona ** Winner ''

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'' (

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, Hong Kong) * Asiatica Film Mediale ** Winner '' The Gift to Stalin'' ( Rustem Abdrashov, Kazakhstan) ** Winner '' Jamila and the President '' ( Ratna Sarumpaet, Indonesia) *

** Winner '' Independencia'' ( Raya Martin, the Philippines) *

** Winner '' Doctor Ma's Country Clinic'' ( Cong Feng, China) ** Winner '' The Day After'' ( Lee Suk-Gyung, South Korea) * Brisbane International Film Festival ** Winner ''

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, Iran) ** Winner '' Agrarian Utopia'' ( Uruphong Rakasasad, Thailand) *

** Winner ''

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'' (

Park Chan-ok Park Chan-ok (born 1968) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. She wrote and directed '' Jealousy Is My Middle Name'' (2003) and ''Paju'' (2009). Career Born in 1968, Park Chan-ok majored in Theater and Film Studies at Hanyang Unive ...

, South Korea) *

Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival The Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival, more commonly known as Cinemalaya, is a film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theater, cinemas or screening venues, usually ann ...

** Winner '' Baseco Bakal Boys'' ( Ralston Jover, the Philippines) *

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** Winner ''Flowers of the Sky'' ( Prasanna Vithanage, Sri Lanka) ** Winner ''Before the Burial'' (Behnam Behzadi, Iran) *

** Winner ''Castaway on the Moon'' ( Lee Hae-jun, South Korea) *

** 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) *

** Winner ''The Land (2009 film), The Land'' (He Jia,

) *

** Winner ''Imburnal'' (Sherad Anthony Sanchez, the Philippines) *

** Winner ''Breathless (2008 film), Breathless'' (Yang Ik-june, South Korea) *

** 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 (2009 film), 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 (director), 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 (2009 film), Between Two Worlds'' (Vimukthi Jayasundara, Sri Lanka) * Asiatica Film Mediale ** Winner ''Kanasemba Kudureyaneri, Riding the Stallion of Dream'' (Girish Kasaravalli, India) ** Winner ''Single Man (2010 film), Single Man'' ( Hao Jie, China) * 60th Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival ** Winner ''Au Revoir Taipei'' (Arvin Chen,

) * 15th Busan International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival ** Winner ''Dooman River'' (Zhang Lu (director), Zhang Lu, South Korea and France) * Chongqing Independent Film and Video Festival ** Winner – Feature Film ''Fortune Teller (2009 film), Fortune Teller'' (Xu Tong, China) ** Winner – Short Film ''The Unnamed (2010 film), The Unnamed'' (Huang Yali (director), Huang Yali, Taiwan) * 6th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival ** Winner ''Sheika (film), Sheika'' (Arnel Mardoquio, the Philippines) *

** Winner ''Adrift (2009 Vietnamese film), Adrift'' (Bui Thac Chuyen; Vietnam, France) * Didor International Film Festival ** Winner ''The Other Bank'' (George Ovashvili, Georgia) *

** Winner ''Monga (film), Monga'' ( Doze Niu, Taiwan) *

** Winner – Asian Competition ''I Am Afia Megha Abhimanyu Omar'' (Onir Anirban, India) ** Winner – Malayalam Competition ''Veettilekkulla Vazhi'' (Dr. Biju, India) *

** Winner ''Moscow'' (Whang Cheol-mean,

) *

** Winner ''Clash'' (Pepe Diokno (director), Pepe Diokno, the Philippines) *

** Winner ''Son of Babylon'' (Mohamed Al-Daradji, Iraq) ** Winner ''Orion (2010 film), 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)'' (

, Indonesia) * Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival ** Winner ''Mundane History'' (Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand) * Third Eye Asian Film Festival ** Winner ''Judge (film), Judge'' (Liu Jie (director), Liu Jie, China) * Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema ** Winner ''Animal Town'' (Jeon Kyu-hwan,

) * Vietnam International Film Festival ** Winner ''Sandcastle (film), Sandcastle'' (Boo Junfeng, Singapore)

2011

* Abu Dhabi Film Festival ** Winner ''Marathon Boy (film), Marathon Boy'' (Gemma Atwal; UK, India) * Asiatica Film Mediale ** Winner ''Dokhtar...Pedar...Dokhtar'' (Panahbarkhoda Rezaee, Iran) * 16th Busan International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival ** Winner ''The King of Pigs'' (Yeon Sang-ho, South Korea) * 61st Berlin International Film Festival, 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) * 7th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival ** Winner ''Boundary (film), Boundary'' (Benito Bautista, the Philippines) * Eurasia International Film Festival ** Winner ''The Lead (film), The Lead'' (Zulfikar Musakov, Uzbekistan) *

** Winner ''Hanaan'' (Ruslan Pak, South Korea and Uzbekistan) *

** Winner – Asian Competition ''At the End of It All'' (Aditi Roy, India) ** Winner – Malayalam Competition ''Adaminte Makan Abu'' (Salim Ahamed, India) *

** Winner ''Black Blood'' (Zhang Miaoyan, China and France) ** Winner ''The Day I Disappeared'' (Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi, Iran) *

** Winner ''Single Man'' ( Hao Jie, China) *

** Winner ''Once Upon a Time in Anatolia'' (Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina) * Kolkata International Film Festival ** Winner ''Guerrilla (2011 film), Guerrilla'' (Nasiruddin Yousuff, Bangladesh) * Moscow International Film Festival ** Winner ''The House Under the Water (film), 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 (film), Mourning'' (Morteza Farshbaf, Iran) * Third Eye Asian Film Festival ** Winner ''Gangor (film), Gangor'' (Italo Spinelli; Italy, India) * Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema ** Winner ''P.S. (2011 film), 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 (film), Parviz'' (Majid Barzegar, Iran) * Bengaluru International Film Festival ** Winner ''Epilogue (2012 film), Epilogue'' (Amir Manor, Israel) ** Winner ''Darling, Something's Wrong with Your Head'' (Susan Youssef, Palestine) * 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival ** Winner ''Modest Reception'' ( Mani Haghighi, Iran) * 17th Busan International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival ** Winner ''Jiseul'' (O Muel, South Korea) * 8th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival ** Winner - Directors Showcase Competition ''Bwakaw'' (Jun Lana, the Philippines) ** Winner - New Breed Competition ''Diablo (film), Diablo'' (Mes de Guzman, the Philippines) * Eurasia International Film Festival ** Winner ''Student (film), Student'' (Darejan Omirbaev, Kazakhstan) * Hanoi International Film Festival ** Winner ''Night of Silence'' (Reis Çelik, Turkey) *

** Winner ''Aparisyon, Apparition'' (Isabel Sandoval, credited as Vincent Sandoval, the Philippines) *

** Winner – Asian Competition ''I. D.'' (K. D. Kamal, India) ** Winner – Malayalam Competition ''Ee Adutha Kalathu'' (Arun Kumar Aravind, India) *

** Winner ''Sentimental Animal'' (Wu Quan (director), Wu Quan, China) *

** Winner ''Florentina Hubaldo, CTE'' ( Lav Diaz, the Philippines) *

** Winner ''Beyond the Hill'' (Emin Alper; Turkey, Greece) * Kolkata International Film Festival ** Winner ''11 Flowers'' (

, China) * Moscow International Film Festival ** Winner ''The Horde (2012 film), 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 (2012 film), 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 (film), Kalayaan'' (Adolfo Alix Jr., the Philippines)

2013

* Abu Dhabi Film Festival ** Winner ''Harmony Lessons'' (Emir Baigazin; Kazakhstan, Germany, France) * Asiatica Film Mediale ** Winner ''The Snow on the Pines, Snow on Pines'' (Payman Maadi, Iran) * 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival ** Winner ''When I Saw You (film), When I Saw You'' (Annemarie Jacir; Palestine and Jordan) * 18th Busan International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival ** Winner ''Shuttlecock (2013 film), Shuttlecock'' (Lee Yubin, South Korea) * 9th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival ** Winner - Directors Showcase Competition ''Ekstra, The Bit Player'' ( Jeffrey Jeturian, the Philippines) ** Winner - New Breed Competition ''Transit (2013 film), Transit'' (Hannah Espia, the Philippines) * Eurasia International Film Festival ** Winner ''The Little Brother (film), The Little Brother'' ( Serik Aprymov, Kazakhstan) ** Winner ''Waiting for the Sea'' (Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, Tajikistan) *

** Winner ''Monsoon Shootout'' (Amit Kumar (singer), Amit Kumar, India) * IFFK, International Film Festival of Kerala ** Winner – Asian Competition ''Meghe Dhaka Tara (2013 film), Meghe Dhaka Tara'' (Kamaleshwar Mukherjee, India) ** Winner – Malayalam Competition ''CR No: 89'' (Sudevan, P. P. Sudevan, India) *

** Winner ''What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love'' (Mouly Surya, Indonesia) *

** Winner ''Flashback Memories 3D'' (Matsue Tetsuaki, Japan) * Kolkata International Film Festival ** Winner ''Television (2012 film), 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, Pacific Meridian Film Festival ** Winner ''Ilo Ilo'' (Anthony Chen, Singapore) * Tripoli Film Festival ** Winner ''Shakespeare Must Die'' (Ing Kanjanavanit, Thailand) ** Winner ''Liberta (film), Liberta'' (Kan Lume, Singapore) * 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival ** Winner ''Qissa (film), Qissa'' (Anup Singh; India, Germany)"TIFF 2013: 12 Years a Slave wins film fest's top prize"
''Toronto Star'', September 15, 2013. * 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 (filmmaker), Samir, Iraq, Switzerland, Germany and United Arab Emirates) * Bengaluru International Film Festival ** Winner – Asian Cinema Competition ''Asha Jaoar Majhe, Labour of Love'' (Aditya Vikram Sengupta, India) ** Winner – Kannada Cinema Competition ''December-1'' (P. Sheshadri, India) * 64th Berlin International Film Festival, 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) * 19th Busan International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival ** Winner ''Socialphobia'' (Hong Seok-jae, South Korea) * 10th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, 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 (2014 film), Adventure'' (Nariman Turebayev, Kazakhstan) * Hanoi International Film Festival ** Winner ''The Coffin Maker (film), The Coffin Maker'' (Jason Paul Laxamana, the Philippines) *

** Winner ''Titli (2014 film), Titli'' (Kanu Behl, India) *

** Winner – Asian Competition ''Summer, Kyoto'' (Hiroshi Toda (director), Hiroshi Toda, Japan) ** Winner – Malayalam Competition ''Oraalppokkam'' (Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, India) *

** Winner ''28 (2014 film), 28'' (Prasanna Jayakody, Sri Lanka) *

** 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 (2013 film), 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, Pacific Meridian Film Festival ** Winner ''A Hard Day'' (Kim Seong-hun (filmmaker), 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 (2014 film), Senior'' (Jed Medrano, the Philippines) * Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival ** Winner ''The Move (film), 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 (director), Shi Wei, China) * Warsaw International Film Festival ** Winner ''13 (2014 film), 13'' (Hooman Seyedi, Iran)

2015

* All Lights India International Film Festival ** Winner ''Mina Walking'' (Yosef Baraki, Canada and Afghanistan) * 20th Busan International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival ** Winner ''Communication & Lies'' (Lee Seung-Won (director), Lee Seung-Won, South Korea) * Busan International Short Film Festival ** Winner ''Ketchup (film), Ketchup'' (Yan Baishen, Guo Chunning (director), Guo Chunning; China) * 11th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival ** Winner – Short Film ''Wawa (film), Wawa'' (Angelie Mae Macalanda, the Philippines) * Eurasia International Film Festival ** Winner ''Kunanbai'' (Doskhan Zholzhaksynov, Kazakhstan) *

** Winner ''The Kids (film), The Kids'' (Sunny Yu, Taiwan) *

** Winner – Asian Competition ''Yona (film), Yona'' (Nir Bergman, Israel) ** Winner – Malayalam Competition ''Ottaal'' (Jayaraj, India) *

** Winner ''Poet on a Business Trip'' (Ju Anqi, China) *

** Winner ''Under the Sun'' (Seulki Ahn, Korea) * Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival ** Winner ''Nay (2015 film), Nay'' (Djenar Maesa Ayu, Indonesia) * Kolkata International Film Festival ** Winner ''Blanka (film), Blanka'' (Kohki Hasei; Japan, Italy, Philippines) * Moscow International Film Festival ** Winner ''Being Good'' (Mipo Oh, Japan) ** Winner ''Arventur'' (Irina Evteeva, Russia) * Pacific Meridian, 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 (2015 film), Stranger'' (Yeremek Tursunov, Kazakhstan) * 2015 Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival ** Winner ''The Whispering Star'' (Sion Sono, Japan) * QCinema International Film Festival ** Winner – Circle Competition for Filipino Films ''Sleepless (2015 film), Sleepless'' (Prime Cruz, the Philippines) ** Winner – DoQC Competition ''Crescent Rising (film), Crescent Rising'' (Sheron Dayoc, the Philippines) * Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema ** Winner ''The Monk (2014 film), The Monk'' (The Maw Naing, Myanmar) ** Special Mention Chen Shiang-chyi in ''Exit (2014 film), Exit'' (Chien Hsiang, Taiwan) * Yakutsk International Film Festival ** Winner ''God Johogoi'' (Sergei Potapov (director), 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 (film), Under Heaven'' (Dalmira Tilepbergen, Kyrgyzstan) ** Winner – Asian Cinema Competition ''Thithi (film), Thithi'' (Raam Reddy, India) ** Winner – Kannada Cinema Competition ''Child of Debt (film), Child of Debt'' (Umashankar Swamy, India) * Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival ** Winner ''The Forest (2015 film), The Forest'' (Paul Spurrier, Thailand) * 21st Busan International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival ** Winner ''Merry Christmas Mr. Mo'' (Lim Dae-hyung, Korea) * 12th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, 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 (2015 film), The Green Carriage'' (Oleg Asadulin, Russia) *

** Winner ''Knife in the Clear Water'' (Wan Xuebo, China) *

** Winner – Asian Competition ''Cold of Kalandar'' (Mustafa Kara, Turkey) ** Winner – Malayalam Competition ''Kammatipaadam'' (Rajeev Ravi, India) *

** Winner ''The Plague at the Karatas Village'' ( Adilkhan Yerzhanov, Kazakhstan) * Iranian Film Festival Australia ** Winner ''Life and a Day'' (Saeed Roostaee, Iran) *

** Winner ''Spy Nation'' (Choi Seung-ho (director), 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 (2016 film), Lady of the Lake'' (Haobam Pawan Kumar, India) * Moscow International Film Festival ** Winner ''Sonita (film), Sonita'' (Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami, Iran) * Pacific Meridian, Pacific Meridian Film Festival ** Winner ''Immortal (2015 film), 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 (film), Apprentice'' (Boo Junfeng; Singapore, Germany, France, Hong Kong and Qatar) * Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival ** Winner ''Duet (2016 film), Duet'' (David Nanesh, Iran) * Toronto International Film Festival ** Winner ''In Between (2016 film), 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 (film), 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) * 22nd Busan International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival ** Winner ''February (2017 film), February'' (Kim Joonghyun, South Korea) * 13th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival ** Winner – Feature Film ''Respeto'' (Treb Monteras II, Alberto Monteras II, the Philippines) ** Winner – Short Film ''Aliens Ata'' (Glenn Barit, the Philippines) * Eurasia International Film Festival ** Winner ''Centaur (2016 film), Centaur'' (Aktan Arym Kubat, Kazakhstan) * Fajr International Film Festival ** Winner ''The Home (film), The Home'' (Asghar Yusifinejad, Asghar Yousefinejad, Iran) *

** Winner ''One Thousand Ropes'' (Tusi Tamasese, New Zealand) * International Film Festival & Awards Macao ** Winner ''Angels Wear White'' (Vivian Qu, Taiwan) *

** Winner – Asian Competition ''Newton (film), Newton'' (Amit V Masurkar, India) ** Winner – Malayalam Competition ''Thondimuthalum Driksakshiyum'' (Dileesh Pothan, India) *

** Winner ''Children are not Afraid of Death, Children are Afraid of Ghosts'' (Rong Guang Rong, China) * Iranian Film Festival Australia ** Winner ''Israfil (film), Israfil'' (Ida Panahandeh, Iran) *

** 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, Pacific Meridian Film Festival ** Winner ''Nearest and Dearest (2017 film), 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 (2016 film), 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) * 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival ** Winner ''The Great Buddha+'' (Huang Hsin-yao, Taiwan) * Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema ** Winner ''Going the Distance (2016 film), 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 (film), Excavator'' (Lee Ju-hyoung, South Korea) ** Winner – Kannada Cinema Competition ''Beti (Daughter)'' (P. Sheshadri, India) * Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival ** Winner ''The Hungry Lion (film), The Hungry Lion'' (Takaomi Ogata, Japan) ** Winner ''I'm Crazy (film), I'm Crazy'' (Masaaki Kudo, Japan) * 23rd Busan International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival ** Winner ''House of Hummingbird'' (Kim Bora, South Korea) * 14th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival, 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) *

** Winner ''Still Human'' (Oliver Siu Kuen Chan, Hong Kong) * International Film Festival & Awards Macao ** Winner ''Suburban Birds'' (Qiu Sheng, China) *

** Winner ''Ee.Ma.Yau'' (Lijo Jose Pellissery, India) *

** Winner ''Nervous Translation'' (Shireen Seno, the Philippines) *

** Winner ''Adulthood (2018 film), 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, Pacific Meridian Film Festival ** Winner ''An Elephant Sitting Still'' (Hu Bo, China) * QCinema International Film Festival ** Winner – Circle Competition for Filipino Films ''Dog Days (2018 Filipino film), 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 (film), Kejal'' (Nima Salehiyar, Iran) * Toronto International Film Festival ** Winner ''The Third Wife'' (Ash Mayfair, Vietnam) ** Special Mention ''The Crossing (2018 film), The Crossing'' (Bai Xue (director), 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 (2017 South Korean film), Mothers'' (Lee Dong-eun, South Korea) ** Special Mention ''A Letter to the President'' (Roya Sadat, Afghanistan) * Warsaw International Film Festival ** Winner ''The Fall (2018 film), The Fall'' (Zhou Lidong, China)

2019

* Asian Film Festival Barcelona ** Winner ''Father and Son (2017 Vietnamese film), 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 ''Sivaranjiniyum Innum Sila Pengalum, Sivaranjini and other Women'' (Vasanth, India) ** Winner – Kannada Cinema Competition ''Nathicharami'' (Mansore, India) * Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival ** Winner ''Gully Boy'' (Zoya Akhtar, India) * 24th Busan International Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival ** Winner ''Moving On (2019 film), 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 (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 (film), Beanpole'' (Kantemir Balagov, Russia) * Fajr International Film Festival ** Winner ''The Narrow Red Line'' (Farzad Khoshdast, Iran) * Hainan International Film Festival ** Winner ''Verdict (2019 film), Verdict'' (Raymund Ribay Gutierrez, the Philippines) *

** Winner ''Another Child'' (Kim Yoon-seok, South Korea) *

** 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) *

** 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) *

** Winner ''The Harvest (2019 film), The Harvest'' (Misho Antadze, Georgia) * Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival ** Winner ''Aurora (2018 Kyrgyz film), Aurora'' (Bekzat Pirmatov, Kyrgyzstan) ** Winner ''Nakorn-Sawan (film), 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, 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 (2019 film), 1982'' (Oualid Mouaness; Lebanon, USA, Qatar, Norway) * Ulju Mountain Film Festival ** Winner ''Beloved (2019 film), Beloved'' (Yaser Talebi, Iran) * Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema ** Winner ''A Family Tour'' (

; 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) *

** Winner ''Fighter (2020 film), Fighter'' (Jero Yun, South Korea) * Busan International Short Film Festival ** Winner ''Adam (2019 Singaporean film), 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) *

** Winner ''Nasir (film), Nasir'' (Arun Karthick; India, Netherlands, Singapore) *

** Winner ''The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs'' (Pushpendra Singh (director), Pushpendra Singh, India) * Pacific Meridian, 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 '':ja:君は永遠にそいつらより若い, 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 (2020 film), 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 (2021 film), Major'' (Ehsan Abdipour, Iran) *

** Winner ''Anima (2020 film), Anima'' (Cao Jinling, China) *

** Winner – Malayalam Competition ''Musical Chair (2020 film), Musical Chair'' (Vipin Atley, India) *

** 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 (2021 film), 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 (film), YT'' (Stepan Burnashev & Dmitrii Davydov, Russia)

2022

* Asian Film Festival Barcelona ** Winner ''Streetwise (2021 film), Streetwise'' (Na Jiazuo, China) * Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival ** Winner ''Office Royale'' (Seki Kazuaki, Japan) *

** Winner ''A Wild Roomer'' (Lee Jeong-hong, South Korea) * Busan International Short Film Festival ** Winner ''The Boys Club (film), 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 (2021 film), Black Rainbow'' (Zig Madamba Dulay; the Philippines, United States) * Eurasia International Film Festival ** Winner ''Fire (2021 film), Fire'' (Aizhan Kasymbek, Kazakhstan) * Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, Golden Horse Film Festival ** Winner ''Autobiography (film), Autobiography'' (Makbul Mubarak; Indonesia, France, Germany, Poland, Singapore, Philippines, Qatar) * Hanoi International Film Festival ** Winner ''Bone Marrow (film), Bone Marrow'' (Hamid Reza Ghorbani, Iran) ** Winner ''The Villain Kontrabida'' (Adolfo Alix Jr., Philippines) *

** Winner – Asian Competition ''Alam (film), Alam'' (Firas Khoury; France, Tunisia, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Qatar) ** Winner – Malayalam Competition ''Ariyippu'' (Mahesh Narayanan, India) *

** Winner ''Journey to the West (2021 film), 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 (film), Dov'' (Muhiddin Muzaffar, Tajikistan) * Moscow International Film Festival ** Winner ''Adim (film), 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 (2021 film), Without You'' (Park Jae-hyun (director), 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) *

** 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 (2023 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 and Awards, Golden Horse Film Festival ** Winner ''Fly Me to the Moon (2023 film), Fly Me to the Moon'' (Sasha Chuk, Hong Kong) *

** Winner ''If Only I Could Hibernate'' (Zoljargal Purevdashi; France, Mongolia) *

** Winner – Asian Competition ''Yakshanba, Sunday'' (Shokir Kholikov, Uzbekistan) ** Winner – Malayalam Competition ''Aattam'' (Anand Ekarshi, India) *

** Winner ''Whispering Mountains'' (Jagath Manuwarna, Sri Lanka) *

** Winner ''Stonewalling (film), Stonewalling'' (Huang Ji (director), Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka, Japan) * Mumbai Film Festival, Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival ** Winner ''Rimdogittanga, Rapture'' (Dominic Sangma; India, China, Switzerland, Netherlands, Qatar) * 18th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival ** Winner ''Kayo Kayo Colour?, 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 (film), Mimang'' (Kim Tae-yang, South Korea) * Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival ** Winner ''Inpaintings'' (Ozan Yoleri, Turkey) * Toronto International Film Festival ** Winner ''A Match (film), A Match'' (Jayant Digambar Somalkar, India) *

** 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 (2024 film), 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) *

** Winner ''The Land Of Morning Calm'' (Park Ri-woong, South Korea) * Busan International Short Film Festival ** Winner ''Minus One (film), 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 (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 ''Lật mặt 7: Một điều ước, 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 and Awards, Golden Horse Film Festival ** Winner ''Montages of a Modern Motherhood'' (Oliver Chan, Hong Kong) * Hanoi International Film Festival ** Winner ''Liar (2024 film), Liar'' (Yuliya Trofimova, Russia) *

** Winner ''Sister Midnight'' (Karan Kandahari; India, Sweden, United Kingdom) *

** Winner – Asian Competition ''Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others'' (Farshad Hashemi (director), Farshad Hashemi; Czech Republic, Germany, Iran) ** Winner – Malayalam Competition ''Feminichi Fathima (film), Feminichi Fathima'' (Fasil Muhammed, India) *

** Winner ''Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust'' (Ishan Shukla; India, France, Germany) *

** Winner ''Punch Drunk'' (Adel Tabrizi), Iran) * Mumbai Film Festival, Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival ** Winner ''Girls Will Be Girls (2024 film), Girls Will Be Girls'' (Shuchi Talati; India, France) ** Special Mention ''Agent of Happiness'' (Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó; Bhutan, Hungary) ** Special Mention ''Shambhala (2024 film), Shambhala'' (Min Bahadur Bham; Nepal, France, Norway, Hong Kong, China, Turkey, Taiwan, United States, Qatar) * 19th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival, Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival **Winner: ''MA - Cry of Silence'' (The Maw Naing; Myanmar, South Korea, Singapore, France, Norway, Qatar) * 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 (director), 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) *

** Winner ''Mistress Dispeller'' (Elizabeth Lo; United States, China) * Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema ** Winner ''Scream (2023 film), Scream'' (Kenzhebek Shaikakov, Kazakhstan) * Warsaw Film Festival ** Winner ''Black Dog (2024 film), Black Dog'' (Guan Hu, China)

2025

** Winner ''Bad Girl (2025 film), Bad Girl'' (Varsha Bharath, India) *

** Winner ''Black Ox'' (Tsuta Tetsuichiro; Japan, Taiwan, United States) * 47th Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow International Film Festival ** Winner ''Ha Lyngkha Bneng'' (Pradip Kurbah, India) * Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema ** Winner ''Abel (2024 film), Abel'' (Elzat Eskendir, Kazakhstan) ** Winner – Aruna Vasudev NETPAC Award for Best Asia Pacific Film 2024 ''All We Imagine as Light'' (Payal Kapadia (filmmaker), Payal Kapadia; France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy)

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