Festival

NETPAC Award

The NETPAC Award is awarded to the best Asian feature film by a jury from the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema.

Winners per edition

2024
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust
by Ishan Shukla

2023
Whispering Mountains by Jagath Manuwarna

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)