The 18th annual Asian Film Awards (AFA) announced the winners and special award recipients at a ceremony held at the West Kowloon Cultural District’s Xiqu Centre in Hong Kong on March 16, 2025. Sixteen competitive prizes and five honorary prizes were given out. The AFA ceremony featured a glamorous Red Carpet and Award Ceremony attracting participants from all over Asia, and was a great success. At this year’s AFA, the Hong Kong actor-director Sammo Hung served as the jury president leading other jury and voting members composed of filmmakers from around the world in selecting the winners. Daishi Matsunaga, along with fellow director Stanley Kwan, served as presenters.
Here are all the awards and nominees of this year’s edition
BEST FILM
All We Imagine as Light (India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Black Dog (Mainland China)
Exhuma (South Korea)
Teki Cometh (Japan)
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
BEST DIRECTOR
Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light (India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Guan Hu – Black Dog (Mainland China)
Jang Jae-hyun – Exhuma (South Korea)
Rithy Panh – Meeting With Pol Pot (Cambodia, France, Taiwan, Qatar, Türkiye)
Yoshida Daihachi – Teki Cometh (Japan)
BEST ACTOR
Eddie Peng – Black Dog (Mainland China)
Choi Min-sik – Exhuma (South Korea)
Sean Lau – Papa (Hong Kong)
Nagatsuka Kyozo – Teki Cometh (Japan)
Michael Hui – The Last Dance (Hong Kong)
BEST ACTRESS
Kani Kusruti – All We Imagine as Light (India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Sylvia Chang – Daughter’s Daughter (Taiwan)
Kawai Yuumi – Desert of Namibia (Japan)
Kim Go-eun – Exhuma (South Korea)
Shahana Goswami – Santosh (India, United Kingdom, France, Germany)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mitsuishi Ken – All the Long Nights (Japan)
Ikematsu Sosuke – My Sunshine (Japan)
Lee Kang-sheng – Stranger Eyes (Singapore, Taiwan, France, United States)
Chu Pak Hong – The Last Dance (Hong Kong)
Philip Ng – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Maggie Li Lin Lin – All Shall Be Well (Hong Kong)
Divya Prabha – All We Imagine as Light (India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Lim Ji-yeon – Revolver (South Korea)
Takiuchi Kumi – Teki Cometh (Japan)
Yang Kuei-Mei – Yen and Ai-Lee (Taiwan)
BEST NEW DIRECTOR
Yamanaka Yoko – Desert of Namibia (Japan)
Sora Neo – Happyend (Japan, United States)
Dong Zijian – My Friend An Delie (Mainland China)
Sandhya Suri – Santosh (India, United Kingdom, France, Germany)
Truong Minh Quý – Viêt and Nam (The Philippines, France, Singapore, Netherlands, Germany, Italy)
BEST NEWCOMER
Lee Do-hyun – Exhuma (South Korea)
Kurihara Hayato – Happyend (Japan, United States)
Putthipong Assaratanakul – How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies (Thailand)
Dylan So – Papa (Hong Kong)
Duy Bao Dinh Dao – Viêt and Nam (The Philippines, France, Singapore, Netherlands, Germany, Italy)
BEST SCREENPLAY
Wada Kiyoto, Miyake Sho – All the Long Nights (Japan)
Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light (India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Jang Jae-hyun – Exhuma (South Korea)
Pierre Erwan Guillaume, Rithy Panh – Meeting With Pol Pot (Cambodia, France, Taiwan, Qatar, Türkiye)
Mohammad Rasoulof – The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Iran, Germany, France)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Yang Donglin – A Tapestry of a Legendary Land (Mainland China)
Choi Yoon-sun – Exhuma (South Korea)
Dorjee Dradhul Gurung – Shambhala (Nepal, Hong Kong, France, Norway, Qatar, Taiwan, Türkiye, United States)
Miyamoto Mari – Teki Cometh (Japan)
Bruce Yu, Karen Yip – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Huo Tingxiao, Li Chang – Black Dog (Mainland China)
Pham Phong Lan – Don’t Cry, Butterfly (Vietnam, Singapore, The Philippines, Indonesia)
Seo Sung-kyung – Exhuma (South Korea)
Hayashida Yuji – The Box Man (Japan)
Kenneth Mak, Chau Sai Hung Ambrose – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
BEST EDITING
Clément Pinteaux – All We Imagine as Light (India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Rithy Panh, Matthieu Laclau – Meeting With Pol Pot (Cambodia, France, Taiwan, Qatar, Türkiye)
William Chang Suk Ping – My Friend An Delie (Mainland China)
Jojo Shek – Papa (Hong Kong)
Cheung Ka Fai – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Hong Kyeong-pyo – Harbin (South Korea)
Lv Songye – My Friend An Delie (Mainland China)
Aziz Zhambakiyev – Shambhala (Nepal, Hong Kong, France, Norway, Qatar, Taiwan, Türkiye, United States)
Shinomiya Hidetoshi – Teki Cometh (Japan)
Cheng Siu Keung – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC
Hi’Spec – All the Long Nights (Japan)
Kim Tae-sung – Exhuma (South Korea)
Katsumoto Michiaki – The Box Man (Japan)
Chu Wan Pin – The Last Dance (Hong Kong)
Kawai Kenji – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Danny Yin – Black Dog (Mainland China)
Sato Fumiro, Kobari Yasuhiro – Black Ox (Japan, Taiwan)
Tomi Kuo, Chiu Chun-Yi – Dead Talents Society (Taiwan)
Kim Shin-chul, Daniel Son – Exhuma (South Korea)
Lin Chun Yue Jules, Ma Siu Fu, Garrett K Lam, Yee Kwok Leung – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
BEST SOUND
Zurab Kurmanbayev – Cadet (Kazakhstan)
Kim Byung-in – Exhuma (South Korea)
Tu Duu-Chih, Tu Tse-Kang – Stranger Eyes (Singapore, Taiwan, France, United States)
Yiu Chun Hin, Cheung Man Hoi, To Burnard Davy – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
Vincent Villa – Viêt and Nam (The Philippines, France, Singapore, Netherlands, Germany, Italy)
You can watch the full ceremony here
