2004
PEEP "TV" SHOW by Yutaka Tsuchiya (Japan)

2003
WELCOME TO DESTINATION SHANGHAI by Andrew Cheng (China)

Special mention:
COWARDS BEND THE KNEE by Guy Maddin (Canada; video-installation ordered by The Power Plant, Toronto)

2002
MEIN BRUDER DER VAMPIR (GETTING MY BROTHER LAID) by Sven Taddicken (Germany)

Special mention:
LA LIBERTAD byLisandro Alonso (Argentina)

2001
BAD COMPANY (MABUDACHI) by Furumaya Tomoyuki (Japan)

2000
MUNDO GRÚA by Pablo Trapero (Argentina)
(best film in competition)

AUDITION by Miike Takashi (Japan)
(best film outside competition)

1999
VICTOR...PENDANT QU’IL TROP TARD by Sandrine Veysset (France)
1990
KHAYAL GATHA by Kumar Shahani (India)

Special mention:
Director Alejandro Agresti ‘for his many contributions to the film art'.

1998
ex aequo:
FROST by Fred Kelemen (Germany)
FIRST LOVE, LAST RITES by Jesse Peretz (USA)

Special mention:
MOTEL CACTUS by Park Ki-Yong (South Korea)

1997
SUZAKU by Kawase Naomi (Japan)

Special mention:
FROZEN by Wu Ming (China)

1996
ERZI (SONS) by Zhang Yuan (China)

Special Mention:
SAFE by Todd Haynes (USA)

1995
POSTMAN by He Jianjun (China)

1994
RED BEADS by He Yi (China)

1993
ICH BIN MEINE EIGENE FRAU by Rosa van Praunheim (Germany)

1992
FIVE GIRLS ON A ROPE by Ye Hung-wei (Taiwan)

Special mention:
NOGA (LEG) by Nikita Thikonov (Russia)
ALTA MAREA by Lucian Segura (Italy)

1991
KROEG VTOROJ (THE SECOND CIRCLE) by Aleksandr Sokoerov (Russia)

Special mention:
TINPIS RUN by Pengau Nengo (Papua New Guinea)
HIMMEL ODER HÖLLE by Wolfgang Mumberger (Austria)