Each year, the NETPAC Jury (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) awards the NETPAC Award to the best Asian film selected for the festival.
2012
Sentimental Animal by Wu Quan (China, 2011)
2011
ex aequo
Black Blood by Zhang Miaoyan (China/France)
The Day I Disappeared by Atousa Bandeh Ghiasabadi (Iran)
2010
Moscow by Wang Cheol-Mean
2009
The Land by He Jia (Zuid-Korea)
2008
What on Earth Have I Done Wrong?! by Niou Chen-zer (Taiwan)
2007
Fourteen by Hirosue Hiromasa (Japan)
2006
The Lost Hum by Hirosue Hiromasa (Japan)
2005
Sanctuary by Ho Yu-hang (Maleisië)
2004
The Missing by Lee Kang-sheng (Taiwan)
Special mention:
Uniform 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), Mariam Shahriar (Iran)
2000
Nang Nak, Nonzee Nimibutr (Thailand)
1999
The Servant's Shirt, Mani Kaul (India)
1998
Dance of the Wind, Rajan Khosa (India)
Special mention:
Green Fish, Lee Chang-Dong (South Korea)
1997
2 Duo, Suwa Nobuhiro (Japan)
1996 ex aequo:
Heartbreak Island, Hsu Hsiao-Ming (Taiwan)
Nostalgia For Countryland, Dang Nath Minh (Vietnam)
1995
Vidheyan, Adoor Gopalakrishnan (India)