2025 Award Winners

Best Film: "A Sad and Beautiful World" (Lebanon) directed by Cyril Aris

Best Actor: Vishal Jehtwa in "Homebound" (India)

Best Actress: Tandin Bidha in "I, The Song" (Bhutan)

Discretionary Award: Best Director: Anselm Chan for "The Last Dance " (Hong Kong)

Special Jury Prize: "Palestine 36" (Palestine) directed by Annemarie Jacir

Audience Award: "Left-Handed Girl" (Taiwan) directed by Tsou Shih-Ching

Snow Leopard Competition Awardees

Short Film Finalists

Best Short Film: Don’t be late, Myra by Afia Serena Nathaniel (Pakistan)

2nd Prize: Sheep directed by Hadi Babaeifar (Iran)

3rd Prize: Before the Winter directed by Juan Zuloaga Eslait (US / China)

Asian Vision Awardee

Best Film - "The Summer Will End" (Russia/Yakutia) directed by Maksim Arbugaev & Vladimir Munkuev