NETPAC Award
The NETPAC Award is annually awarded to the best Asian feature film by a jury from the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema.
Past winners
2024
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust by Ishan Shukla
2023
Whispering Mountains by Jagath Manuwarna
2022
no award
2021
no award
2020
Nasir by Arun Karthick
2019
Last Night I Saw You Smiling by Kavich Neang
2018
Nervous Translation by Shireen Seno
2017
Children Are Not Afraid of Death, Children Are Afraid of Ghosts by Rong Guang Rong
2016
The Plague at the Karatas Village by Adilkhan Yerzhanov
2015
Poet on a Business Trip by Ju Anqi (China)
2014
28 by Jayakody Prasanna (Sri Lanka)
2013
What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love by Mouly Surya (Indonesia)
2012
Sentimental Animal by Wu Quan (China)
2011
Black Blood by Zhang Miaoyan (China/France)
The Day I Disappeared by Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi (Iran)
2010
Moscow by Whang Cheol-Mean (South Korea)
2009
The Land by He Jia (China)
2008
What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?! by Niu Chen-zer (Taiwan)
2007
Fourteen (Ju-yon-sai) by Hirosue Hiromasa (Japan)
2006
The Lost Hum (Hanauta-Dorobou) by Hirosue Hiromasa (Japan)
2005
Sanctuary by Ho Yuhang (Malaysia)
2004
The Missing (Bu Jian) by Lee Kang-sheng (Taiwan)
Special mention:
Uniform (Zhifu) by Diao Yinan (China)
2003
(No NETPAC Jury, no Award awarded)
2002
Wave by Okuhara Hiroshi (Japan)
Special mention:
Secret Ballot by Babak Payami (Italy/Iran)
2001
Dokhtaran Khorshid (Daughters of the Sun) by Mariam Shahriar (Iran)
2000
Nang Nak by Nonzee Nimibutr (Thailand)
1999
The Servant’s Shirt by Mani Kaul (India)
1998
Dance of the Wind by Rajan Khosa (India)
Special mention:
Green Fish by Lee Chang-Dong (South Korea)
1997
2 Duo by Suwa Nobuhiro (Japan)
1996
ex aequo:
Heartbreak Island by Hsu Hsiao-Ming (Taiwan)
Nostalgia For Countryland by Dang Nath Minh (Vietnam)
1995
Vidheyan by Adoor Gopalakrishnan (India)