“Thank you so much to my lead on-screen characters — three unimaginable specialists and human creatures. They are the ones who made this film what it is,” Kapadia said from the arrange interior Hong Kong’s shining Xiqu Middle, where the ceremony was held. “I’m so cheerful that we may conclusion our travel here in Hong Kong, a city that has implied a parcel to me, observing the astonishing movies from this city over the years.”
Legendary Hong Kong filmmaker and military expressions star Sammo Hung served as president of the jury that chosen the victors of the 2025 AFAs, Asia‘s driving pan-regional cinema honors.
The best chief prize went to Japan’s Yoshida Daihachi for his barometrical character think about, Teki Cometh. The film debuted at the Tokyo Universal Film Celebration in November and cleared the event’s grant categories.
Hong Kong’s Sean Lau took domestic the best performing artist trophy for his capturing turn in Philip Yung’s family show Father. The on-screen character said thanks to the on-screen characters who played his family individuals in the film and gave a shout-out to the have city’s ambushed filmmaking community.
“I’m exceptionally cheerful since Father is a Hong Kong-made movie,” Lau said.
The best on-screen character honor, in the mean time, was granted to Shahana Goswami for her lead execution in Santosh coordinated by first-time filmmaker Sandhya Suri, who moreover won the best modern executive prize. Goswami lauded her collaborators but too said thanks to the AFA institute — and herself.
“I’d too like to thank myself,” she said. “I feel like I’m continuously under-confident and I never allow myself sufficient credit, so I need to thank the Asian Film Grants Institute for giving me this vote of confidence.”
Best supporting on-screen character went to ingenious Taiwanese craftsmanship house star Lee Kang-sheng for his bewildering execution in Yeo Siew Hua’s secret thriller Stranger Eyes, which moreover won the night’s best altering honor. After saying thanks to his chief, Lee jested, “Although I’ve won a parcel of best performing artist grants, I’m getting more seasoned so I figure I can as it were attempt for best supporting on-screen character now.”
Going into the night, South Korea’s frightfulness hit Exhuma was the year’s favorite with a whopping 11 designations. The motion picture, a powerful thriller coordinated by Jang Jae-hyun, was both a basic favorite and a colossal dramatic sensation in South Korea, getting to be the country’s highest-grossing film of the year. But it went domestic with fair two wins — best ensemble plan and best visual effects.
The Hong Kong return activity epic Sundown of the Warriors: Walled In was the second-most feted film with nine designations. It too won in two categories — altering and generation design.
Veteran Korean performing artist Jang Dong-gun (Companion, Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War) and Chinese star Tang Wei (Desire, Caution, Choice to Take off) were this year’s beneficiaries of the Greatness in Asian Cinema Award.
Japan’s globally adored driving man, Koji Yakusho (Idealize Days, Should We Move?, The Eel), in the mean time, gotten the AFA’s Lifetime Accomplishment honor. Over a 45-year career in cinema, Yakusho has worked with each major Japanese executive of his era and occupied over 80 characters, traversing salarymen, samurai, hoodlums, cops, enticers and everymen of all stripes. He was already designated for the AFA’s best performing artist honor four times and won twice — for The Blood of Wolves (2018) and Culminate Days (2023) — making him one of the most beautified stars in the awards’ history nearby Hong Kong’s Tony Leung and Korea’s Lee Byung-hun.
“I was genuinely lowered to listen the names of the past beneficiaries and found myself in wonder of such recognized figures,” Yakusho said. “Receiving this grant propels me to endeavor for indeed superior work in the remaining a long time of my acting career.”
The AFAs kick off the Hong Kong film industry’s busiest month of the year. Hong Kong Filmart, Asia’s biggest film rights advertise opens its entryways on Monday in the city’s Wanchai area, along with the compelling HAF film venture advertise. The Hong Kong Universal Film Celebration kicks off at the conclusion of the month. The festival’s full 2025 film determination will be disclosed at a press conference at Filmart on Tuesday.
See the full list of 2025 Asian Film Grant victors below.
BEST FILM
All We Envision as Light (India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Black Puppy (Territory China)
Exhuma (South Korea)
Teki Cometh (Japan)
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
BEST DIRECTOR
Payal Kapadia – All We Envision as Light (India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Guan Hu – Dark Pooch (Terrain China)
Jang Jae-hyun – Exhuma (South Korea)
Rithy Panh – Assembly With Pol Pot (Cambodia, France, Taiwan, Qatar, Türkiye)
Yoshida Daihachi – Teki Cometh (Japan)
BEST ACTOR
Eddie Peng – Dark Puppy (Territory China)
Choi Min-sik – Exhuma (South Korea)
Sean Lau – Dad (Hong Kong)
Nagatsuka Kyozo – Teki Cometh (Japan)
Michael Hui – The Final Move (Hong Kong)
BEST ACTRESS
Kani Kusruti – All We Envision as Light (India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Sylvia Chang – Daughter’s Girl (Taiwan)
Kawai Yuumi – Forsake of Namibia (Japan)
Kim Go-eun – Exhuma (South Korea)
Shahana Goswami – Santosh (India, Joined together Kingdom, France, Germany)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Mitsuishi Insight – All the Long Evenings (Japan)
Ikematsu Sosuke – My Daylight (Japan)
Lee Kang-sheng – Stranger Eyes (Singapore, Taiwan, France, Joined together States)
Chu Pak Hong – The Final Move (Hong Kong)
Philip Ng – Sundown of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Maggie Li Lin Lin – All Might Be Well (Hong Kong)
Divya Prabha – All We Envision as Light (India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Lim Ji-yeon – Pistol (South Korea)
Takiuchi Kumi – Teki Cometh (Japan)
Yang Kuei-Mei – Yen and Ai-Lee (Taiwan)
BEST Unused DIRECTOR
Yamanaka Yoko – Leave of Namibia (Japan)
Sora Neo – Happyend (Japan, Joined together States)
Dong Zijian – My Companion An Delie (Territory China)
Sandhya Suri – Santosh (India, Joined together 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, Joined together States)
Putthipong Assaratanakul – How to Make Millions Some time recently Grandmother Kicks the bucket (Thailand)
Dylan So – Dad (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 Evenings (Japan)
Payal Kapadia – All We Envision as Light (India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Jang Jae-hyun – Exhuma (South Korea)
Pierre Erwan Guillaume, Rithy Panh – Assembly With Pol Pot (Cambodia, France, Taiwan, Qatar, Türkiye)
Mohammad Rasoulof – The Seed of the Sacrosanct Fig (Iran, Germany, France)
BEST Ensemble DESIGN
Yang Donglin – A Embroidered artwork of a Amazing Arrive (Territory China)
Choi Yoon-sun – Exhuma (South Korea)
Dorjee Dradhul Gurung – Shambhala (Nepal, Hong Kong, France, Norway, Qatar, Taiwan, Türkiye, Joined together States)
Miyamoto Mari – Teki Cometh (Japan)
Bruce Yu, Karen Howl – Sundown of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
BEST Generation DESIGN
Huo Tingxiao, Li Chang – Dark Puppy (Terrain 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 – Sundown of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
BEST EDITING
Clément Pinteaux – All We Envision as Light (India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
Rithy Panh, Matthieu Laclau – Assembly With Pol Pot (Cambodia, France, Taiwan, Qatar, Türkiye)
William Chang Suk Ping – My Companion An Delie (Terrain China)
Jojo Shek – Father (Hong Kong)
Cheung Ka Fai – Dusk of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Hong Kyeong-pyo – Harbin (South Korea)
Lv Songye – My Companion An Delie (Terrain China)
Aziz Zhambakiyev – Shambhala (Nepal, Hong Kong, France, Norway, Qatar, Taiwan, Türkiye, Joined together States)
Shinomiya Hidetoshi – Teki Cometh (Japan)
Cheng Siu Keung – Sundown of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
BEST Unique MUSIC
Hi’Spec – All the Long Evenings (Japan)
Kim Tae-sung – Exhuma (South Korea)
Katsumoto Michiaki – The Box Man (Japan)
Chu Faded Stick – The Final Move (Hong Kong)
Kawai Kenji – Dusk of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Danny Yin – Dark Pooch (Terrain China)
Sato Fumiro, Kobari Yasuhiro – Dark Bull (Japan, Taiwan)
Tomi Kuo, Chiu Chun-Yi – Dead Abilities Society (Taiwan)
Kim Shin-chul, Daniel Child – Exhuma (South Korea)
Lin Chun Yue Jules, Ma Siu Fu, Garrett K Lam, Yee Kwok Leung – Sundown 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, Joined together States)
Yiu Chun Hin, Cheung Man Hoi, To Burnard Davy – Dusk of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)
Vincent Estate – Viêt and Nam (The Philippines, France, Singapore, Netherlands, Germany, Italy)
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