2022
Jury Prize
Along the Sea by Fujimoto Akio (Japan - Vietnam)
For his so accurate way of filming a universal story related to a form of modern slavery, in today's Japan where he places his camera as close as possible to his heroines and dares daring sequence shots that deeply involve us in the painful journey of these three characters.
2020
Jury Prize
John Denver Trending by Arden Rod Condez (Philippines)
for the director’s frank, balanced and smooth-flowing approach connects us with the potentially serious and uncontrollable consequences of fake news.
2019
Jury Prize
Jinpa by Pema Tseden (Tibet-China)
for succeeding in mixing genres and influences from road movie to science-fiction and from Wong Kar-Wai to Sergio Leone, in a modern tale that is funny as it is stimulating.
2018
Jury Prize
The Taste of Rice Flower by Pengfei (China)
for the gripping portrayal of the identity conflict of an ethnic minority torn between ancestral traditions and economic, social and technological changes in modern China and the problems of the children growing without their parents, who left them to work in cities.
2017
Jury Prize
Hotel Salvation by Shubhashish Bhutiani (India)
For his very personal view upon three successive generations, representative of India’s evolution.
2016
Film Critic Award Winner
Being Good by O Mipo (Japan)
for a fresh and poignant view of contemporary society, seen throw the eyes of young school teacher.
Special Mention (ex-aequo)
Under Construction by Rubaiyat Hossain (Bangladesh)
for its rich and colorful representation of a woman's role in a changing capital.
Special Mention (ex-aequo)
Walnut Tree by Yerlan Nurmukhambetov (Kazakhstan)
for a lively and humorous portrait of a rural community.
2015
Film Critic Award Winner
Exit by Chienn Hsiang (Taiwan)
Unanimously chosen for its great dramatic rigor, with an acute measure of emotion, served by a good sense of framing and space that skillfully plays with what the characters hide and reveal to each other. The performance of Chen Shiang-Chyi is all the more remarkable that she has only a few lines to build a character that she manages to embody with a lot of power and physical presence.
