Silver Screen Awards
Introduced in 1991, Silver Screen Awards is the first international competition with a category dedicated to Asian cinema.
It spotlights filmmaking talents from across Asia, with a focus on Southeast Asia. Many of its awardees and nominees have since established themselves among the region’s most prominent filmmakers.
- In-Docs
Outstanding Contribution to Southeast Asian Cinema Award
- Best Southeast Asian Short Film
- Best Singapore Short Film
- Best Director
- Best Performance
- Special Mention Award
Southeast Asian Short Film Competition
- Best Asian Feature Film
- Best Director
- Best Performance
- Special Mention Award
Asian Feature Film Competition
- Fellowship Prize
- Most Promising Project
- Special Mention Award
Southeast Asian Film Lab
- Youth Critic Award
Youth Critic Award
Outstanding Contribution to Southeast Asian Cinema Award Winner

In-Docs (Indonesia)
Southeast Asian Short Film Competition Winners

Vania on Lima Street by Bayu Prihantoro Filemon
Best Southeast Asian Short Film

Smoke gets in your eyes by Alvin Lee
Best Singapore Short Film

Le Lam Vien for FIX ANYTHING
Best Director

Bopha Oul In Further and further away by Polen Ly
Best Performance

Dikit by Gabriela Serrano
Special Mention Award
Asian Feature Film Competition Winners

Autobiography by Makbul Mubarak
Best Asian Feature Film

Laha Mebow for Gaga
Best Director

Zukhara Sanzysbay for Convenience Store
Best Performance

Arnold Is a Model Student by Sorayos Prapapan
Special Mention Award
Southeast Asian Film Lab Winners

Gabriela Serrano
Fellowship Prize

Rein Maychaelson
Fellowship Prize

Giovanni Rustanto
Most Promising Project

Gladys Ng
Special Mention Award
Youth Critic Award Winner

Benjamin Yap Kee Siang
Youth Critic Award
Asian Feature Film Competition Jury

Lav Diaz
Jury Head | Philippines
Lav Diaz is an award-winning Filipino auteur who excavates his country’s history in films renowned for their epic lengths, pared-down aesthetics and political convictions. Besides directing, he is also a writer, producer, editor and cinematographer. His notable works include Melancholia (2008), which won Best Film in the Orizzonti section at Venice; From What Is Before (2014), which clinched the Golden Leopard at Locarno; The Woman Who Left (2016), which took home the Golden Lion at Venice; and A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery (2016), which was awarded the Silver Bear at the Berlinale.

Dennis Lim
Jury | USA
Dennis Lim is the artistic director of New York Film Festival. From 2013 to 2022, he was director of film programming at Lincoln Center, where he co-chaired the New Directors/New Films selection committee and co-founded the Art of the Real festival. He most recently authored Tale of Cinema (2022), a monograph on Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo, as well as The Man from Another Place (2015), a critical biography of David Lynch. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Cinema Scope and Film Comment.

Kim Soyoung
Jury | South Korea
Kim Soyoung is a filmmaker, writer and academic. She directed two documentary trilogies, the first on Korean women’s history comprising Koryu: Southern Women, South Korea (2001), I’ll Be Seeing Her (2002) and New Woman: Her First Song (2004), and the second titled Exile Trilogy, that includes Goodbye My Love, North Korea (2014-2018). She also directed the fiction feature Viewfinder (2010). Her recent published works include Korean Cinema in Global Contexts: Post-Colonial Phantom, Blockbuster and Trans-Cinema (2022) and she edited the 10-volume History of Korean Cinema. Kim is the director of Trans:Asia Screen Culture Institute and a professor of cinema studies at Korea National University of Arts.

Ritu Sarin
Jury | India
Ritu Sarin is an Indian filmmaker and artist. Her documentary The Sun Behind the Clouds (2009) won the Václav Havel Award at the One World film festival in Prague. Her feature debut Dreaming Lhasa (2005) world-premiered at Toronto International Film Festival, while her second feature The Sweet Requiem (2018) also premiered at the same festival. All her films were made together with her partner Tenzing Sonam. She is the founder-director of Dharamshala International Film Festival, now in its 11th edition and widely considered to be one of India’s leading independent film festivals.
Southeast Asian Short Film Competition

Khoo Gaik Cheng
Jury | Malaysia
Khoo Gaik Cheng is an associate professor at the University of Nottingham Malaysia’s School of Media, Languages and Cultures where she teaches Southeast Asian cinema. She has published widely on independent filmmaking in Malaysia, Singapore and beyond, and most recently co-edited Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945–1998) (Amsterdam University Press, 2020). She founded the Association of Southeast Asian Cinemas which held its inaugural conference in 2004.

Lucky Kuswandi
Jury | Indonesia
Lucky Kuswandi is a screenwriter and director whose films explore issues of identity, acceptance and inclusivity. A Berlinale Talent alumnus, his first feature Madame X (2010) won Best Film at Copenhagen LGBT Film Festival. In 2015, his short film The Fox Exploits the Tiger’s Might competed in Cannes’ Critics’ Week, and won Best Short Film and Best Director at SGIFF’s Silver Screen Awards. He teaches film directing at the Universitas Multimedia Nusantara.

Tuan Andrew Nguyen
Jury | USA/Vietnam
Tuan Andrew Nguyen is an artist whose work explores strategies of political resistance by reworking historical narratives and examining speculative supernaturalisms. His films, video works and sculptural installations have been exhibited in the Berlin Biennale, Sharjah Biennial, Whitney Biennial and Asia Pacific Triennial, among others. He is a founder of art collective The Propeller Group and artist-run alternative space San Art in Ho Chi Minh City.