The Singapore International Film Festival

Singapore International Film Festival

The Singapore International Film Festival was launched in 1987. The festival is an annual film event, held around April/May each year, and screens about 300 films from over 45 countries...

 (SIFF) is an annual film festival

Film festival

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...

 held every April in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

. The festival was first held in 1987. It is presently screening about 300 films from over 45 countries. Film industry-related activities such as exhibitions, workshops and seminars are also organised for the Singapore International Film Festival.

Silver Screen Awards Competition

The Silver Screen Awards Competition was introduced in 1991 to encourage advances in Asian film-making standards. Every year a select group of Asian feature films take part in the competition. Singapore short films also take part in a subcategory where a best film and best director are awarded.

1991 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asia Feature: Black Republic (South Korea, Park Kwang-Su
  Park Kwang-su
  Park Kwang-su is a Korean filmmaker. He was born in Sokcho, Gangwon Province, South Korea on January 22, 1955 and grew up in Busan, South Korea. Park joined the Yallasung Film Group as a student of Fine Arts at Seoul National University...
  
  )
• Special Jury Prize: The Man from Island West (Taiwan, Huang Mingchuan)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: August (Eric Khoo
  Eric Khoo
  Eric Khoo is a film director from Singapore. He was introduced to the world of cinema at a very early age. He was educated at United World College of South East Asia before attending City Art Institute in Sydney, Australia where he pursued cinematography...
  
  )
• Special Jury Prize: The Cage (K. Subramaniam
  K. Subramaniam
  Krishnaswami Subramaniam was a renowned Tamil film director of the 30s and 40s. He is the father of popular Indian danseuse Padma Subramanyam.-Biography:...
  
  )

1992 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asia Feature: Life on a String
  Life on a String (film)
  Life on a String is a 1991 Chinese film by acclaimed film director Chen Kaige. Made before his international breakthrough Farewell, My Concubine, Life on a String is a more intimate and philosophical affair, telling the story of a blind sanxian player and his young disciple. The film was based on...
  
   (China, Chen Kaige
  Chen Kaige
  Chen Kaige is a Chinese film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema. His films are known for their visual flair and epic storytelling.-Early life:...
  
  )
• Special Jury Prize: The Ferry (Kadavu) (India, M. T. Vasudevan Nair
  M. T. Vasudevan Nair
  Madathil Thekkepaattu Vasudevan Nair , popularly known as MT, is an Indian author, screenplay writer and film director. He was born in Kudallur, a small village in the present day Palakkad District, which was under the Malabar District in the Madras Presidency of the British Raj...
  
  )
• Best Director: Edward Yang
  Edward Yang
  Edward Yang , along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi .-Biography:...
  
  , A Brighter Summer Day
  A Brighter Summer Day
  A Brighter Summer Day is a nearly four-hour long, 1991 Taiwanese drama film directed by Taiwanese director Edward Yang...
  
  

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Special Jury Prize: Waves of a Distant Shore (Meng Ong)
• Best Director: Meng Ong, Waves of a Distant Shore

1993 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asian Feature: The Peach Blossom Land (Stan Lai
  Stan Lai
  Stan Lai or Lai Sheng-chuan is a highly influential award-winning US born Taiwan based playwright and theater director, also known for his award-winning feature films, known for Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land...
  
  , Taiwan
  Republic of China
  The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...
  
  )
• Special Jury Prize: Hill of no Return (Wang Tung, Taiwan
  Republic of China
  The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...
  
  )
• Best Director: Stan Lai, (The Peach Blossom Land Taiwan
  Republic of China
  The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...
  
  )
• Best Actress: Yang Kwei-Mei, Hill of no Return
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI
  FIPRESCI
  The International Federation of Film Critics is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in...
  
   Award: The Peach Blossom Land (Stan Lai
  Stan Lai
  Stan Lai or Lai Sheng-chuan is a highly influential award-winning US born Taiwan based playwright and theater director, also known for his award-winning feature films, known for Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land...
  
  , Taiwan
  Republic of China
  The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...
  
  )

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Special Jury Prize: Ragged (Nisar & Nazir Husain)
• Best Director: Meng Ong, Buddha's Garden

1994 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asia Feature: Sopyonje (Im Kwon-taek
  Im Kwon-taek
  Im Kwon-taek is one of South Korea's most renowned film directors. In an active and prolific career, his films have won many domestic and international film festival awards as well as considerable box-office success, and helped bring international attention to the Korean film industry.- Early life...
  
  , South Korea
  South Korea
  The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
  
  )
• Special Jury Prize: Rebels of the Neon God
  Rebels of the Neon God
  Rebels of the Neon God is a 1992 Taiwanese film by Tsai Ming-liang. It is his first full-length film. It tells two stories of Taipei youth. One details alienated buxiban student Hsiao Kang and his troubled interactions with his family...
  
  (Tsai Ming-Liang
  Tsai Ming-liang
  Tsai Ming-liang is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier contemporaries such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang...
  
  , Taiwan
  Republic of China
  The Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan , is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. Originally based in mainland China, the Republic of China currently governs the island of Taiwan , which forms over 99% of its current territory, as well as Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor...
  
  )
• Special Jury Prize: Beijing Bastards
  Beijing Bastards
  Beijing Bastards is a 1993 drama film by sixth generation director Zhang Yuan, and is one of the first independently produced Chinese films....
  
  (Zhang Yuan
  Zhang Yuan
  Zhang Yuan is a Chinese film director who has been described by film scholars as a pioneering member of China's Sixth Generation of filmmakers...
  
  , China
  People's Republic of China
  China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
  
  )
• Special Jury mention: The Servile
  Vidheyan
  Vidheyan is a 1993 Indian Malayalam film directed and co-written by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. It is a cinematic adaptation of the novel Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum by Malayalam writer Paul Zacharia. The film explores the master-slave dialectic in a South Karnataka setting...
  
  (Adoor Gopalakrishnan
  Adoor Gopalakrishnan
  Moutatthu "Adoor" Gopalakrishnan Unnithan is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer. Adoor Gopalakrishnan had a major role in revolutionizing Malayalam cinema and is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of India.. Adoor's first film Swayamvaram pioneered the new wave cinema...
  
  , India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
  )
• Best Director: Tian Zhuangzhuang
  Tian Zhuangzhuang
  Tian Zhuangzhuang is a Chinese film director and producer.Tian was born to an influential actor and actress in China. Following a short stint in the military, Tian began his artistic career first as an amateur photographer and then as an assistant cinematographer at the Beijing Agricultural Film...
  
  (The Blue Kite
  The Blue Kite
  The Blue Kite is a film directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang in 1993. Though banned by the Chinese government upon its completion , the film soon found a receptive international audience...
  
  , China
  People's Republic of China
  China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
  
  )
• Best Actor: Amrish Puri
  Amrish Puri
  Amrish Singh Puri , ; 22 June 1932 – 12 January 2005 was an iconic theater and film actor from India, who was a key player in the Indian theater movement that picked up steam in the 1960s. He worked with notable playwrights of the time, such as Satyadev Dubey and Girish Karnad...
  
  (Seventh Horse of the Sun
  Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda
  Suraj Ka Satvan Ghoda is a 1992, Indian Hindi film directed by Shyam Benegal and based on a novel of the same name by Dharmavir Bharati. It won the 1993 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi...
  
  , India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
  )
• Best Actress: Lu Liping (The Blue Kite
  The Blue Kite
  The Blue Kite is a film directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang in 1993. Though banned by the Chinese government upon its completion , the film soon found a receptive international audience...
  
  , China
  People's Republic of China
  China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
  
  )
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI
  FIPRESCI
  The International Federation of Film Critics is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in...
  
   Award: The Servile
  Vidheyan
  Vidheyan is a 1993 Indian Malayalam film directed and co-written by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. It is a cinematic adaptation of the novel Bhaskara Pattelarum Ente Jeevithavum by Malayalam writer Paul Zacharia. The film explores the master-slave dialectic in a South Karnataka setting...
  
  (Adoor Gopalakrishnan
  Adoor Gopalakrishnan
  Moutatthu "Adoor" Gopalakrishnan Unnithan is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer. Adoor Gopalakrishnan had a major role in revolutionizing Malayalam cinema and is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of India.. Adoor's first film Swayamvaram pioneered the new wave cinema...
  
  , India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
  )

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: Ethos (Dominic Christopher Pereira); Married (Cheah Chee Kong)
• Best Director, Special Achievement Award: Pain (Eric Khoo)
• Special Jury Prize: Hurt Instinct (Nisar & Nazir Husain)
• Special Jury Prize: Eddy (Dzulkilfi Sungit, Remi Mohamed)

1995 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asian Feature: Vive l'Amour
  Vive L'Amour
  Vive L'Amour is a 1994 Taiwanese New Wave film by Tsai Ming-liang. It is a slow-paced film with sparse dialogue about urban alienation, centering on three people who unknowingly share an apartment in Taipei.-Plot:...
  
   (Taiwan, Tsai Ming-Liang
  Tsai Ming-liang
  Tsai Ming-liang is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier contemporaries such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang...
  
  )
• Special Jury Prize: Postman
  Postman (film)
  Postman is a Chinese film made in 1995 and directed by He Jianjun. His second feature, Postman tells the story of a shy mailman played by Feng Yuanzheng who steals and reads the letters of people on his route...
  
   (China, He Jianjun
  He Jianjun
  He Jianjun is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. A graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, He is considered a leading voice in the so-called "Sixth Generation." He is occasionally credited under the name "He Yi."- Career :...
  
  )
• Best Actor: Xia Yu
  Xia Yu
  Xia Yu is a Chinese actor.-Biography:He was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province. He was initially discovered by Jiang Wen during his semi-autobiographical film In the Heat of the Sun . Xia was chosen partly because of facial resemblance to a young Jiang...
  
  , In the Heat of the Sun
  In the Heat of the Sun
  In the Heat of the Sun is a 1994 movie directed by Jiang Wen. This was Jiang Wen's first foray into directing after years as a leading man. The film is based on author Wang Shuo's novel Wild Beast .-Synopsis:...
  
   (China, Jiang Wen
  Jiang Wen
  Jiang Wen is a Chinese film actor and director. As a director, he is sometimes grouped with the "sixth generation" that emerged in the 1990s. Jiang is also well known internationally as an actor, having starred with Gong Li in Zhang Yimou's debut film Red Sorghum...
  
  )
• Best Actress: Yang Kwei-Mei, Vive l'Amour
  Vive L'Amour
  Vive L'Amour is a 1994 Taiwanese New Wave film by Tsai Ming-liang. It is a slow-paced film with sparse dialogue about urban alienation, centering on three people who unknowingly share an apartment in Taipei.-Plot:...
  
  
• NETPAC - FIPRESCI Award: A Borrowed Life (Taiwan, Wu Nien-jen)
• NETPAC - FIPRESCI Special Mention: Mee Pok Man
  Mee Pok Man
  Mee Pok Man is a 1995 film by Eric Khoo. The film is Eric Khoo's debut feature, after making award-winning short films for years.The film is a black comedy starring Joe Ng as the male protagonist Johnny, a Chinese seller of noodles , and Michelle Goh as the prostitute Bunny...
  
   (Singapore, Eric Khoo)

1996 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asian Feature: Cardiogram (Kazakhstan, Darezhan Omirbayev)
• Special Jury Prize: On the Beat
  On the Beat (1995 film)
  On the Beat is a 1995 Chinese film directed by Ning Ying. It is the second film in Ning Ying's Beijing Trilogy, a collection of three films that follows the massive changes to Beijing in the last decades of the twentieth century. Whereas Ning's previous film, For Fun dealt with the older...
  
   (China, Ning Ying
  Ning Ying
  Ning Ying is a female Chinese film director often considered a member of China's "Sixth Generation" filmmaker coterie, a group that also includes Jia Zhangke, Zhang Yuan and Wang Xiaoshuai. However, this is more a result of a shared subject matter than anything else, as chronologically, Ning is...
  
  )
• Best Director: Edward Yang
  Edward Yang
  Edward Yang , along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi .-Biography:...
  
  , Mahjong
  Mahjong (1996 film)
  Mahjong is a 1996 Taiwanese Comedy film written and directed by Edward Yang. The film stars Chang Chen, Nick Erickson and Virginie Ledoyen.-Cast and roles:*Tang Congsheng as Red Fish*Chang Chen as Hong Kong*Lawrence Ko as Lun-lun...
  
   (Taiwan)
• Best Actor: Bishnu Kharghoria, It's a Long Way to the Sea (Hkhagoroloi Bohu Door) (India, Jahnu Barua
  Jahnu Barua
  Jahnu Barua is a multiple national and international award-winning Indian film director from Assam. He has directed a number of Assamese and Hindi films, and along with Bhabendra Nath Saikia was one of the pioneers of Assamese Art cinema...
  
  )
• Special Achievement Award: Good Men, Good Women
  Good Men, Good Women
  Good Men, Good Women is a 1995 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, starring Annie Shizuka Inoh, Lim Giong and Jack Kao. It is the last installment in the trilogy that began with A City of Sadness and continued with The Puppetmaster...
  
   (Taiwan, Hou Hsiao-Hsien
  Hou Hsiao-Hsien
  Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...
  
  )
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: Good Men, Good Women
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Special Mention: It's a Long Way to the Sea

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: A Moveable Feast (Sandi Tan, Jasmine Ng, Kelvin Tong)

1997 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asian Feature: Gabbeh
  Gabbeh (film)
  Gabbeh is a 1996 Iranian film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. The film gets its name from a type of Persian rug and starts by showing an elderly couple, carrying their Gabbeh, walking toward the river hoping to wash...
  
   (Iran, Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  Mohsen Makhmalbaf is an Iranian film director, writer, editor, and producer. During 2007 he was the president of Asian Film Academy.Makhmalbaf's films have been widely presented in international film festivals in the past ten years. The multi-award-winning director, belongs to the new wave...
  
  )
• Special Jury Prize: The River (Taiwan, Tsai Ming-liang
  Tsai Ming-liang
  Tsai Ming-liang is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier contemporaries such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang...
  
  )
• Best Director: Wu Tianming
  Wu Tianming
  Wu Tianming is a Chinese film director.-Biography:Born in Shaanxi Province, China, Wu Tianming attended the Beijing Film Academy, majoring in directing before the Cultural Revolution...
  
  , The King of Masks
  The King of Masks
  The King of Masks is a 1996 Chinese film directed by Wu Tianming.-Synopsis:Wang is The King of Masks, an aged street performer who practices the change-mask opera art of bian lian. He laments that he has no male heirs to carry on his mysterious and complicated art and trade...
  
   (China)
• Best Actor: Miao Tien, The River
• Best Actress: Machiko Ono, Suzaku (Japan, Naomi Kawase)
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: 12 Storeys (Singapore, Eric Khoo)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film, Special Achievement Award: Beansprouts and Salted Fish (Cheah Chee Kong)
• Best Director: Norman on the Air (Wee Li Lin)

1998 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asian Feature: Children of the Heaven (Iran, Majid Majidi
  Majid Majidi
  Majid Majidi is an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian film director, film producer, and screenwriter. Majidi's films have touched on many themes and genres and he has won many international awards.-Biography:...
  
  )
• Special Jury Prize: Ayneh (The Mirror)
  The Mirror (1997 film)
  The Mirror is a 1997 Iranian film directed by Jafar Panahi, about a little girl trying to find her way home from school.-Plot:Mina, a young girl, finds her mother has failed to pick her up from school, so she decides to walk home on her own. The movie is about her endeavor to find her way home...
  
   (Iran, Jafar Panahi)
• Best Director: Jafar Panahi, Ayneh (The Mirror)
  The Mirror (1997 film)
  The Mirror is a 1997 Iranian film directed by Jafar Panahi, about a little girl trying to find her way home from school.-Plot:Mina, a young girl, finds her mother has failed to pick her up from school, so she decides to walk home on her own. The movie is about her endeavor to find her way home...
  
  
• UOB Young Cinema Award: Wolves Cry Under the Moon (Taiwan, Ho Ping)
• Best Actor: Sunny CHAN Kam Hung
  Sunny Chan
  Sunny Chan Kam-Hung is a Hong Kong television and film actor. His breakout film role was in the internationally multi-award-winning 1998 Hong Kong film Hold You Tight, for which he won the coveted Silver Screen Award for Best Actor at the Singapore International Film Festival in...
  
  , Hold You Tight (Hong Kong, Stanley Kwan)
• Best Actress: Nita Fernando
  Nita Fernando
  Nita Fernando is an award-winning actress in the Sri Lankan cinema. She has starred in films like Duhulu Malak and Pavuru Walalu.-Early life:Nita Fernando was born the eldest of three children...
  
  , Walls Within (Sri Lanka)
• NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: In the Navel of the Sea (The Philippines, Marilou Diaz-Abaya)
• NETPAC/FIPRESCI Special Mention: Hold You Tight (Stanley Kwan)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: By the Dawn's Early Rise (Ong Lay Jinn)
• Best Director: Jack Neo
  Jack Neo
  Jack Neo Chee Keong , PBM, credited as Jack Neo on screen, is a Chinese Singaporean film and television actor, host and director...
  
  , Replacement Killers

1999 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asian Feature: The Hole
  The Hole (1998 film)
  The Hole is a 1998 drama-musical film directed by Tsai Ming-liang. It stars Yang Kuei-Mei and Lee Kang-sheng.-Plot:A strange disease hits Taiwan just before the turn of the new millennium...
  
   (Taiwan, Tsai Ming-Liang
  Tsai Ming-liang
  Tsai Ming-liang is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier contemporaries such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang...
  
  )
• Special Jury Prize: Connection by Fate (Taiwan, Wan Ren)
• Special Mention: The Adopted Son (Beshkempir
  Beshkempir
  Beshkempir is a 1998 Kyrgyz language film. Shot and produced in Kyrgyzstan, it is representative of the first wave of independently produced cinema in the country after its independence from Soviet Union...
  
  ), (Kyrgyzstan/France, Aktan Abdykalykov
  Aktan Abdykalykov
  Aktan Abdykalykov is a screenwriter and director from Kyrgystan.-Filmography:*2010 - The Light Thief *2001 - Maimyl *1998 - Beshkempir...
  
  )
• Best Director: Tsai Ming-Liang, The Hole)
• Best Screenplay: Ikinai (Japan, Minoru Iizuka)
• Best Actor: Joe Abeywickrama
  Joe Abeywickrama
  Gammana Patabendige Don John Abeywickrama was a Sri Lankan actor. He began acting in 1957 and achieved fame as a comedic actor...
  
  , Pura Handa Kaluwara (Sri Lanka, Prasanna Vithanage)
• Best Actress: Yang Kwei-Mei, The Hole
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Awards: Connection by Fate (Wan Ren)
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Special Mention: Beshkempir (Aktan Abdykalykov)
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Special Mention: The Power of the Kangwon-du Province(South Korea, Hong Sang-Soo)
• SFC Young Cinema Award: Beshkempir (Aktan Abdykalykov)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: Datura (Abdul Nizam)
• Best Director: Tay Hui Ngi, Pariah's Diary
• Special Jury Prize: TMIUS (Shermeen Ng)
• Special Achievement Award: Another Guy (Wee Li Lin)
• Special Mention: Doh laai tin sai (Edwin Yeo)
• Special Mention: Please Use Stairs (Victric Thng Hui Leong)

2000 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asia Feature: Darkness And Light
  Darkness and Light
  Darkness and Light is a fantasy novel by Paul B. Thompson and Tonya R. Carter which is set in the world of the Dragonlance campaign setting and is the first volume in the Preludes series.- Plot summary :...
  
   (Taiwan, Chang Tso-chi)
• Special Jury Prize: Split Wide Open
  Split Wide Open
  Split Wide Open is a 1999 Indian film and is Dev Benegal's second feature film after English, August. The film primarily deals with the Water conflicts in the slums of Bombay, and paedophilia, and also looks at the subversive sexuality in modern India and how the notions of morality are challenged...
  
   (India, Dev Benegal
  Dev Benegal
  Dev Benegal is an Indian director and screenwriter, most known for his debut film English, August , which won the 1995 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English....
  
  )
• Best Director: Zhang Yuan
  Zhang Yuan
  Zhang Yuan is a Chinese film director who has been described by film scholars as a pioneering member of China's Sixth Generation of filmmakers...
  
  , Seventeen Years
  Seventeen Years (film)
  Seventeen Years is a 1999 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yuan and starring Li Bingbing in her feature film debut. Seventeen Years was screened at several international film festivals where it garnered numerous accolades, including the Director's Award at the 56th Venice Film Festival.The film is...
  
   (China)
• SFC Young Cinema Award: Eating Air (Singapore, Jasmine Ng & Kelvin Tong
  Kelvin Tong
  Kelvin Tong Weng Kian is a Singaporean film director, screenwriter and producer.-Career:Kelvin's passion for theatre and filmmaking began in his secondary school days in Victoria School. He went on to study at Victoria Junior College...
  
  )
• Best Actor: Rahul Bose
  Rahul Bose
  Rahul Bose is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, social activist, and rugby union player.Bose has appeared in Hindi films such as Pyaar Ke Side Effects and Jhankaar Beats. Time magazine named him "the superstar of Indian arthouse cinema" for his work in parallel cinema films like English,...
  
  , Split Wide Open
  Split Wide Open
  Split Wide Open is a 1999 Indian film and is Dev Benegal's second feature film after English, August. The film primarily deals with the Water conflicts in the slums of Bombay, and paedophilia, and also looks at the subversive sexuality in modern India and how the notions of morality are challenged...
  
  
• Best Actress: Liu Lin and Li Bingbing
  Li Bingbing
  Li Bingbing is a Chinese actress and singer.-Life and career:Li had no intention of becoming an actress initially and enrolled specifically in a high school for prospective school teachers...
  
  , Seventeen Years
  Seventeen Years (film)
  Seventeen Years is a 1999 Chinese film directed by Zhang Yuan and starring Li Bingbing in her feature film debut. Seventeen Years was screened at several international film festivals where it garnered numerous accolades, including the Director's Award at the 56th Venice Film Festival.The film is...
  
  
• Best Screenplay: Aos Gitai & Eliette Abecassis
  Eliette Abécassis
  Éliette Abécassis is a French writer. She is a professor of philosophy in Caen.Abécassis was born in Strasbourg. Her first book, Qumran, was released in 1996 after three years of research, and has been translated into eighteen languages. Her second title, L'Or et la cendre, details the historical...
  
  , Kadosh
  Kadosh
  Kadosh is a 1999 film by Israeli director Amos Gitai. It was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:Kadosh is a bleak drama about the plight of women in Haredi society. In the opening scene, Meir , a young Talmudic scholar, thanks God in his morning prayers for not being born a woman...
  
   (Sacred) (Israel, Aos Gitai)
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: Darkness and Light
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: So Close to Paradise
  So Close to Paradise
  So Close to Paradise is a 1998 Chinese film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, a member of Chinese cinema's so-called Sixth Generation. It is alternatively known by the English title Ruan's Song or by its original Chinese title, The Girl From Vietnam...
  
   (China, Wang Xiaoshuai
  Wang Xiaoshuai
  Wang Xiaoshuai is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He is commonly grouped under the loose association of filmmakers known as the Sixth Generation of the Cinema of China....
  
  )

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: Sons (Royston Tan Tsze Kiam)
• Special Jury Prize: Wait (Kwong Chee Guan Boi)
• Special Achievement Award: Sons

2001 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asian Feature: Eureka
  Eureka (2000 film)
  Eureka is a 2000 Japanese film directed and written by Shinji Aoyama. It stars Kōji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, and Masaru Miyazaki.-Synopsis:...
  
   (Japan, Shinji Aoyama
  Shinji Aoyama
  is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, composer, and novelist. He graduated from Rikkyo University. He won two awards at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival for his film Eureka.-Biography:...
  
  )
• Special Jury Prize: Clouds of May (Turkey, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan
  Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish photographer and film director. He is married to the filmmaker, photographer, and actress Ebru Ceylan, his co-star in İklimler .-Life:Ceylan learned photography at age 15, and developed an interest in film at 22....
  
  )
• SFC Young Cinema Award: Platform (China, Jia Zhangke
  Jia Zhangke
  Jia Zhangke is a Chinese film director. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yuan....
  
  )
• SFC Young Cinema Award: This is My Moon (Sri Lanka, Asoka Handagama)
• Best Director: Im Kwon-Teak, Chunhyang
  Chunhyang
  -Pansori:* Chunhyangga, one of the five surviving stories of the Korean pansori storytelling tradition-Book:* Chunhyangjeon, one of the best known ancient novels of Korea...
  
   (South Korea)
• Best Actor: Ibrahim Kadir, A Poet (Indonesia)
• Best Actress: Nguyen Lan Huoung, The House of Guavas, Vietnam
• NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: A Poet, by Garin Nugroho
  Garin Nugroho
  Garin Nugroho Riyanto , better known as Garin Nugroho, is an award-winning Indonesian film director.-Biography:Nugroho was born in Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta on 6 June 1961. He was the fourth child of postal workers Soetjipto Amin and Mariah, who eventually had seven children...
  
  , Indonesia
• NETPAC/FIPRESCI Special mention: This is My Moon

Singapore Short Film Category:
No Best Film or Best Director winners

• Special Achievement Award: eAHLONG.COM (Colin Goh
  Colin Goh
  Colin Goh is a Singaporean film maker, satirist and cartoonist. He was a former practicing attorney who has turned to full-time writing and illustration....
  
  )

2002 Silver Screen Award

• Best Asian Feature: Batang West Side (The Philippines, Lav Diaz
  Lav Diaz
  Lav Diaz or Lavrente Indico Diaz is a Filipino independent filmmaker, born in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines, on December 30, 1958....
  
  )
• Special Jury Prize: Seafood
  Seafood (film)
  Seafood is a 2001 Chinese film directed by the established writer Zhu Wen. Though Seafood was Zhu's first film as director, he had already gained some experience with filmmaking as a screenwriter for Zhang Ming and Zhang Yuan...
  
   (China/Hong Kong, Zhu Wen
  Zhu Wen (director)
  Zhu Wen is a Chinese short story writer turned director.-Early life and writing:Zhu Wen was born in 1967 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. He attended Southeast University in Nanjing, and graduated with a degree in electric power...
  
  )
• Young Cinema Award: Eliana, Eliana (Indonesia, Riri Riza)
• Best Director: Away From Home (Turkey, Semih Kaplanoglu)
• Best Actor: Jia Hongsheng
  Jia Hongsheng
  -Early life:Jia was born in Siping, Jilin, to Jia Fengsen and Chai Xiuling, both retired theater actors from northeast China. He had a younger sister, Wang Tong.-Life and career:...
  
  , Quitting
  Quitting
  Quitting is a 2001 Chinese drama film directed by Zhang Yang, starring and based on the true life story of Jia Hongsheng. Jia, an actor and former drug addict, battled his addiction to marijuana and heroin for five years from 1992 to 1997...
  
   (China, Zhang Yang)
• Best Actress: Dian Sastrowardoyo
  Dian Sastrowardoyo
  Diandra Paramita Sastrowardoyo , more popularly known as Dian Sastro or Dian Sastrowardoyo, is an Indonesian model and actress....
  
  , Whispering Sands
  Whispering Sands
  Whispering Sands is a 2001 film Indonesian drama film directed by Nan Triveni Achnas and starring Christine Hakim and Dian Sastrowardoyo as a mother and her teenage daughter who are refugees making their way across endless sand dunes....
  
   (Indonesia
  Indonesia
  Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
  
  , Nan Achnas)
• NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: Eliana, Eliana (Riri Riza)
• NETPAC/FIPRESCI Special Mention: I-San Special (Thailand, Mingmongkol Sonakul)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: The Call Home (Han Yew Kwang)
• Special Jury Prize: Eve of Adha (Leonard Yip)
• Best Director: The Secret Heaven (Sun Koh Boon Luang)
• Special Achievement Award: 15 (Royston Tan)

Asian Digital Film Awards:

• Critics Prize: Lost (Malaysia, Amir Muhammad)
• Audience Prize: In Search of Afghanistan (Singapore, Melvinder Kanth, Ismail bin Ishak)

2003 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asian Feature: The Best of Times (Taiwan, Chang Tso-chi)
• Special Jury Prize: Flying With One Wing (Sri Lanka, Asoka Handagama)
• Special Mention: Unknown Pleasures
  Unknown Pleasures (film)
  Unknown Pleasures is a 2002 Chinese film directed by Jia Zhangke, starring Wu Qiong, Zhao Weiwei and Zhao Tao as three disaffected youths living in Datong in 2001, part of the new "Birth Control" generation...
  
   (China-Japan-France, Jia Zhangke
  Jia Zhangke
  Jia Zhangke is a Chinese film director. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yuan....
  
  )
• Best Director: Angel On The Right (Tajikistan, Djamshed Usmonov)
• Best Actor: Wing Fan, The Best of Times
• Best Actress: Anoma Janadari, Flying With One Wing (Sri Lanka, Asoka Handagama)
• Young Cinema Award: Blissfully Yours (Thailand, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: 15 - The Movie (Singapore, Royston Tan)

Singapore Short Film Category:
No awards were given for Best Film, Director and Special Jury Prize

• Special Achievement Award: Autograph Book (Wee Li Lin)

2004 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asian Feature: Uzak (Turkey, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
• Special Jury Prize: Vibrator (Japan, Ryuichi Hiroki)
• Best Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Uzak
• Young Cinema Award: Panj é asr (At Five In The Afternoon) (Iran, Samira Makhmalbaf)
• Best Actor: Mehmet Emin Toprak, Uzak
• Best Actress: Terashima Shinobu, Vibrator
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: August Sun (Sri Lanka, Prasanna Vithanage)

Singapore Short Film Category:
No Award for Best Film

• Best Director: Students of CHIJ (Toa Payoh) under Mr Tan Wil-Kie, Conflict and Crisis
• Special Jury Prize & Special Achievement Award: Innocent (Gek Li San, Ho Choon Hiong)

2005 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asian Feature: Underexposure (Iraq/Germany, Oday Rasheed)
• Special Jury Prize: Tropical Malady (Thailand/France/Italy, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• Best Director: Lee Yoon-ki
  Lee Yoon-ki
  Lee Yoon-ki , is a South Korean film director and writer. He specializes in character dramas with limited dialogue.-Filmography:*This Charming Girl , 2004*Love Talk , 2005*Ad-lib Night , 2006...
  
  , This Charming Girl
  This Charming Girl
  This Charming Girl is an award-winning South Korean drama written and directed Lee Yoon-ki.-Plot:The story of Jeong-Hye , a 29 year-old woman who has retreated into the safety of a completely solitary and seemingly mundane lifestyle as the result of some trauma from her past...
  
   (South Korea)
• Young Cinema Award: Green Hat
  Green Hat
  Green Hat is a Chinese film from 2004 and the debut of screenwriter Liu Fendou. Starring Li Congxi, Liao Fan, and Dong Lifan, the film tells the story of two men, one a bank robber, and one a police officer and their shared problem of unfaithful partners...
  
   (Hong Kong, Liu Fendou
  Liu Fendou
  Liu Fendou is a Chinese film director, screenwriter and film producer.- Biography :Born in Beijing, Liu Fendou spent some time in the United States in his youth doing "generally doing a whole lot of nothing" until returning to Beijing in 1995.Upon his return to China, Liu entered into the film...
  
  )
• Best Actor: (tie) Liao Fan & Li Congxi, The Green Hat'
• Best Actress: Kim Ji-soo
  Kim Ji-soo
  Kim Ji-soo is a South Korean actress.- Career :A graduate of Kaywon Art High School, Kim made her acting debut in 1992. She worked as a television actress for over a decade before branching out into film, saying in an interview that, "I was getting older by the second, and I hated becoming...
  
  , This Charming Girl
• Best Actress: Ho Phuong Dung, A Time Far Past (Vietnam)
• NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: Stray Dogs (Iran, Marziyeh Meshkini)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: A Family Portrait (Boo Junfeng
  Boo Junfeng
  Boo Junfeng is a Singaporean filmmaker.Boo is a graduate from the School of Film & Media Studies at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in 2003, and The Puttnam School of Film, LASALLE College of the Arts in 2009, where he was accorded the McNally Award for Excellence in the Arts – the valedictorian honour of...
  
  )
• Best Director: Gavin Lim, Subtitle
• Special Jury Prize: Elephant: OK (Srinivas Bhakta)
• Special Achievement Award: A Family Portrait

2006 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asian Feature: It's Only Talk
  It's Only Talk
  It's Only Talk is a Japanese film, released in 2005 and is based on the prize winning novel of the same title written by Akiko Itoyama and directed by Ryuichi Hiroki.-Plot summary:...
  
  (Ryuichi Hiroki
  Ryuichi Hiroki
  is a Japanese artist, film director, and film editor.-Biography:Ryūichi Hiroki is now one of the most prolific film directors in Japan. He is a pioneer in using digital video to shoot theatrical films in Japan...
  
  , Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
  )
• Best Director: Kelvin Tong
  Kelvin Tong
  Kelvin Tong Weng Kian is a Singaporean film director, screenwriter and producer.-Career:Kelvin's passion for theatre and filmmaking began in his secondary school days in Victoria School. He went on to study at Victoria Junior College...
  
  (Love Story, Singapore
  Singapore
  Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
  
  )
• Special Jury Prize: Gie
  Gie
  Gie is a 2005 Indonesian film directed by Riri Riza. The film tells the story of Soe Hok Gie, a graduate from University of Indonesia who is known as an activist and nature lover. The film is based on a diary Catatan Seorang Demonstran written by Soe himself...
  
  (Riri Riza
  Riri Riza
  Riri Riza is an Indonesian film director, film producer and screenwriter.-Education, early career:Riri graduated in 1993 from the Jakarta Arts Institute, where he majored in film directing. His final film project, Sonata Kampung Bata , won third place in the 1994 Oberhausen short film festival...
  
  , Indonesia
  Indonesia
  Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
  
  )
• Best Actor: Elijah Castillo (Pepot Superstar, Philippines
  Philippines
  The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
  
  )
• Best Actress: Hanan Tork
  Hanan Tork
  Hanan Tork is an Egyptian actress and former ballerina. She was born as: Hanan Hassan Mohamed Abd El Karim , and is sometimes credited as Hanane Turk and Hanan Turk. She is a sister to two brothers: Hussein and Hossam...
  
  (Kiss Me Not on the Eyes, Lebanon
  Lebanon
  Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...
  
  )
• NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: Todo todo teros (John Torres, Philippines
  Philippines
  The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
  
  )
• NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: Taking Father Home
  Taking Father Home
  Taking Father Home is an award winning independent Chinese film. It's the first feature from a Chinese director Ying Liang.-Awards:* at the San Francisco International Film Festival* Golden Digital Award at the Hong Kong International Film Festival...
  
  (Ying Liang
  Ying Liang
  Ying Liang is a Chinese independent film director and screenwriter.-Biography:Ying Liang graduated from the Department of Directing at the Chongqing Film Academy and Beijing Normal University...
  
  , China
  People's Republic of China
  China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
  
  )

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: Quietly (Oon Jit Fong)
• Best Director: Kam Leong Huat. Di (Little Brother)
• Special Jury Prize: 10 Minutes Later (Kirsten Tan Keng Ing)
• Special Achievement Award: Where Is Singapore? (Kelly Ling)

2007 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asian Feature: Opera Jawa (Garin Nugroho, Indonesia)
• Best Director: Shawkat Amin Korki (Crossing the Dust
  Crossing the Dust
  Crossing the Dust is a 2006 film directed by the Kurdish director Shawkat Amin Korki.-Plot:During the fall of Saddam in 2003, two Kurds are looking for the parents of an Arab boy named Saddam. At the same time the boy's parents are looking for him everywhere, worried because his name is now taboo...
  
  , Iraq)
• Special Jury Prize: Ying Liang (The Other Half, China)
• Best Actor: Carlos Chahine (The Last Man, Lebanon)
• Best Actress: Han Hyo-ju (Ad-Lib Night, South Korea)
• NETPAC Award: Crossing The Dust (Shawkat Amin Korki, Iraq)
• NETPAC Award: Like A Virgin (Lee Hae-young, Lee Hae-jun, South Korea)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: Conversations (Tia Quah)
• Best Director: Tan Keng Ing Kirsten, Fonzi
• Special Jury Prize: Katong Fugue (Boo Junfeng
  Boo Junfeng
  Boo Junfeng is a Singaporean filmmaker.Boo is a graduate from the School of Film & Media Studies at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in 2003, and The Puttnam School of Film, LASALLE College of the Arts in 2009, where he was accorded the McNally Award for Excellence in the Arts – the valedictorian honour of...
  
  )
• Special Achievement Award: Tan Wei Keong, White

2008 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asian Feature: Slingshot (Brillante Mendoza, the Philippines)
• Special Jury Prize: Out of Coverage (Abellatif Abdelhamid, Syria)
• Best Director: Brillante Mendoza (Slinghshot, the Philippines)
• Best Performance: Inessa Kislova (Swift, dir: Abai Kulbai, Kazakhstan)
• NETPAC Award: Slingshot, Brillante Mendoza, the Philippines

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: Keluar Baris (Boo Junfeng
  Boo Junfeng
  Boo Junfeng is a Singaporean filmmaker.Boo is a graduate from the School of Film & Media Studies at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in 2003, and The Puttnam School of Film, LASALLE College of the Arts in 2009, where he was accorded the McNally Award for Excellence in the Arts – the valedictorian honour of...
  
  )
• Special Jury Prize: Wet Seasons (Michael Tay)
• Best Director: Boo Junfeng
  Boo Junfeng
  Boo Junfeng is a Singaporean filmmaker.Boo is a graduate from the School of Film & Media Studies at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in 2003, and The Puttnam School of Film, LASALLE College of the Arts in 2009, where he was accorded the McNally Award for Excellence in the Arts – the valedictorian honour of...
  
  , Keluar Baris
• Special Achievement Award: My Home, My Heaven (Muhammad Eysham Ali)
• Best Cinematography: Sharon Loh, Keluar Baris
• Best Performance: Magdalene Tan, Silent Girls

2009 Silver Screen Awards

• Best Asian Feature: Laila’s Birthday (Palestine)
• Best Director: Rasoul Sadr Ameli, Every Night, Loneliness (Iran)
• Best Performance: Yang Ik-june, Breathless (South Korea)
• Best Cinematography: Zhang Yi, Jalainur (China)
• NETPAC Award - Critic's Prize: Jalainur (Zhao Ye, China)
• Special Mention: Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (Edwin, Indonesia)

Singapore Film Awards:

• Best Film: Rule #1 (Kelvin Tong)
• Best Director: Royston Tan, 12 Lotus
• Best Screenplay: Sherman Ong, Hashi
• Best Performance: Mark Lee, Money No Enough 2
• Best Cinematography: Roszali Samad, Brian Gothong Tan, Sharon Loh, Jaye Neo, Cain Chui, Andrew Mark Sobrielo, Chris Yeo and Adrian Lo, Lucky 7

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: Swimming Lesson (Kat Goh)
• Best Director: Kat Goh, Swimming Lesson
• Best Performance: Cheong Soon Foon, Madam Chan
• Best Cinematography: Simon Walsh and David Shiyang Liu, 5 Films in an Anthology of A Film A Month
• Special Mention: Hush Baby (Tan Wei Keong)