Awards - Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) - 2014-2023
National Awards
- AACTA International Awards
- Academy Awards
- Independent Spirit Awards
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA)
- British Independent Film Awards (BIFA)
- European Film Awards
- César Awards
- Goya Awards
- German Film Awards
- Robert Awards (Danish Film Awards)
- Jussi Awards
- Czech Lion Awards
- Sun in a Net Awards
- Polish Film Awards
- Hungarian Motion Picture Awards (Hungarian Film Awards)
- Filmfare Awards
- Guldbagge Awards
- Amanda Awards
- Hong Kong Film Awards
Film Festivals
- Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF)
- Cannes Film Festival
- Venice Film Festival
- Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival)
- Toronto International Film Festival
- Tribeca Film Festival
- Sundance Film Festival
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF)
- Zurich Film Festival
- San Sebastián International Film Festival
- Sitges Film Festival
- Shanghai International Film Festival
- Warsaw International Film Festival
- Miami Film Festival
- Montreal World Film Festival
- Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF)
- Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
- Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
- Zlín Film Festival
- FAMUfest
- Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund
- Avoriaz International Fantastic Film Festival
Critics Awards
- Golden Globes
- Critics Choice Awards
- Florida Film Critics Circle Awards
- Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards
- Czech Film Critics Awards
Genre / Special Awards
Anti-awards
2023 - 47th Hong Kong IFF
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
Golden Firebird Award - Young Chinese Competition
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Firebird Award - Documentary
- Apolonia, Apolonia (Lea Glob)
- A Holy Family (Elvis Lu)
- A Still Small Voice (Luke Lorentzen)
- Paradise (Alexander Abaturov)
- The Echo (Tatiana Huezo)
- The Fledglings (Lidia Duda)
- The Hamlet Syndrome (Elwira Niewiera, Piotr Rosołowski)
- Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Anna Hints)
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
- Tótem (Lila Avilés)
- 20,000 Species of Bees (Estibaliz Urresola)
- Astrakan (David Depesseville)
- Animalia (Sofia Alaoui)
- Autobiography (Makbul Mubarak)
- Disco Boy (Giacomo Abbruzzese)
- The Castle (Martín Benchimol)
- The Cage Is Looking for a Bird (Malika Musayeva)
Golden Firebird Award - Young Chinese Competition
- Stonewalling (Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka)
- Kissing the Ground You Walked On (Hong Heng Fai)
- Bad Education (Chen-tung Ko)
- Tomorrow Is a Long Time (Zhi Wei Jow)
- Night Falls (Haodong Jian)
- To Love Again (Linyang Gao)
- Absence (Lang Wu)
- Coo-Coo 043 (Ching-lin Chan)
Golden Firebird Award - Short Film
- Bear (Morgane Gaëlle Frund)
- The Beads (Rafaela Camelo, Emanuel Lavor)
- Back (Yazan Rabee)
- Epicenter (Hee-yoon Hahm)
- Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles (Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk)
- Nocomodo (Lola Halifa-Legrand)
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (Alvin Lee)
- Snow in September (Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir)
- Sugar Glass Bottle (Neo Sora)
- Southern Afternoon (Tian Lan)
- The Funeral of Spring (Gao Zee)
- The Thing with Feathers (Tianlin Xu)
- When You Left Me on That Boulevard (Kayla Galang)
Firebird Award - Special Mention
Best Director - Young Chinese Competition
Best Actress - Young Chinese Competition
Best Actor - Young Chinese Competition
Best Director - Young Cinema
Best Actress - Young Cinema
- 20,000 Species of Bees (Sara Cozar, Ane Gabarain, Itziar Lazkano, Patricia López Arnaiz, Sofía Otero)
Best Actor - Young Cinema
FIPRESCI Prize
Jury Prize - Short Film
Jury Prize - Documentary
Jury Prize - Best Animation
Jury Prize - Best Actress
Jury Prize - Best Cinematography
2022 - 46th Hong Kong IFF
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
Golden Firebird Award - Young Chinese Competition
Golden Firebird Award - Documentary
- All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen)
- Children of the Mist (Ha Le Diem)
- Dark Red Forest (Huaqing Jin)
- Tantura (Alon Schwarz)
- Mutzenbacher (Ruth Beckermann)
- The Plains (David Easteal)
- The Territory (Alex Pritz)
- Where Are We Headed? (Ruslan Fedotov)
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
- Mediterranean Fever (Maha Haj)
- Love According to Dalva (Emmanuelle Nicot)
- Axiom (Jöns Jönsson)
- A Piece of Sky (Michael Koch)
- Klondike (Maryna Gorbach)
- The Cloud & the Man (Abhinandan Banerjee)
- Gentle (László Csuja, Anna Nemes)
- Utama (Alejandro Loayza Grisi)
Golden Firebird Award - Young Chinese Competition
- A New Old Play (Jiongjiong Qiu)
- The Sparring Partner (Cheuk-tin Ho)
- Moneyboys (C.B. Yi)
- One and Four (Jigme Trinley)
- Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish (Lei Lei)
- Ripples of Life (Shujun Wei)
- Journey to the West (Dashan Kong)
Golden Firebird Award - Short Film
- Beast (Hugo Covarrubias)
- Adjusting (Dejan Petrović)
- Agrilogistics (Gerard Ortín Castellví)
- Blue Has No Dimensions (Ágata de Pinho)
- Memoir of a Veering Storm (Sofia Georgovassili)
- Bird in the Peninsula (Atsushi Wada)
- Will You Look at Me (Shuli Huang)
- The Bones (Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León)
- Love, Dad (Diana Cam Van Nguyen)
- North Pole (Marija Apcevska)
- What Remains (Daniel Soares)
- Orthodontics (Mohammadreza Mayghani)
- Displaced (Samir Karahoda)
- Sideral (Carlos Segundo)
- Sycorax (Lois Patiño, Matías Piñeiro)
- The Spiral (María Silvia Esteve)
- Trap (Anastasia Veber)
Best Actress - Young Chinese Competition
Best Actor - Young Chinese Competition
Best Director - Young Cinema
Best Actress - Young Cinema
Best Actor - Young Cinema
Firebird Award - Special Mention (Short Film)
Jury Prize - Short Film
Jury Prize - Documentary
2021 - 45th Hong Kong IFF
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
Golden Firebird Award - Young Chinese Competition
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Firebird Award - Documentary
- Mr. Bachmann and His Class (Maria Speth)
- Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen)
- Radiograph of a Family (Firouzeh Khosrovani)
- Aganai: The Cult Leader and Me (Atsushi Sakahara)
- Sabaya (Hogir Hirori)
- Taming the Garden (Salomé Jashi)
- The Last Hillbilly (Diane Sara Bouzgarrou, Thomas Jenkoe)
- This Rain Will Never Stop (Alina Gorlova)
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
- The Wasteland (Ahmad Bahrami)
- Memory House (João Paulo Miranda Maria)
- The Penultimate (Jonas Kærup Hjort)
- Fortuna – The Girl and the Giants (Nicolangelo Gelormini)
- Looking for Venera (Norika Sefa)
- Apples (Christos Nikou)
- In Between Dying (Hilal Baydarov)
- The Edge of Daybreak (Taiki Sakpisit)
Golden Firebird Award - Young Chinese Competition
- The Day Is Over (Rui Qi)
- Summer Blur (Shuai Han)
- Mama (Dongmei Li)
- Lost (Loden)
- Anima (Jinling Cao)
- Wuhai (Ziyang Zhou)
Golden Firebird Award - Short Film
- Motorcyclist’s Happiness Won’t Fit Into His Suit (Gabriel Herrera)
- To Calm the Pig Inside (Joanna Vasquez Arong)
- Here, Here (Joanne Cesario)
- The Chick (Turgut Kanal)
- I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face (Sameh Alaa)
- Dream (Kangmin Kim)
- Lizard (Akinola Davies)
- Letter from Your Far-Off Country (Suneil Sanzgiri)
- Loose Fish (Francisco Canton, Pato Martinez)
- Microcassette - The Smallest Cassette I've Ever Seen (Igor Bezinović, Ivana Pipal)
- Night Bus (Wen-Ming Hsieh)
- O Black Hole! (Renee Zhan)
- The Chicken (Neo Sora)
- Souvenir, Souvenir (Bastien Dubois)
- The Nightwalk (Adriano Valerio)
- Under the Heavens (Gustavo Milan)
- Wuqiao Circus (Lukas Berger)
- Vadim on a Walk (Aleksandr Svirskiy)
Best Director - Young Chinese Competition
Best Actress - Young Chinese Competition
Best Actor - Young Chinese Competition
Best Director - Young Cinema
Best Actress - Young Cinema
Best Actor - Young Cinema
FIPRESCI Prize
Jury Prize - Documentary
Jury Prize - Best Unproduced Script
- Tommy Anderson (Haboob)
Best Student Film
Global Visions - Best Film
2020 - 44th Hong Kong IFF
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
Golden Firebird Award - Young Chinese Competition
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Firebird Award - Documentary
- The Painter and the Thief (Benjamin Ree)
- Zero (Kazuhiro Sôda)
- Little Girl (Sébastien Lifshitz)
- Acasă, My Home (Radu Ciorniciuc)
- Transformation (Tania Cypriano)
- i -Documentary of the Journalist- (Tatsuya Mori)
- Once You Know (Emmanuel Cappellin)
- This is Not a Movie (Yung Chang)
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
- This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese)
- Lonely Rock (Alejandro Telémaco Tarraf)
- The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs (Pushpendra Singh)
- The Alien (Nader Saeivar)
- Kala azar (Janis Rafailidou)
- Exile (Visar Morina)
- Los Conductos (Camilo Restrepo)
- Dust and Ashes (Park Hee-kwon)
Golden Firebird Award - Young Chinese Competition
- The Cloud in Her Room (Xinyuan Zheng Lu)
- Stoma (Kit Hung)
- Be Alive Just Like You (Lai Meng-Jie)
- Wisdom Tooth (Liang Ming)
- Damp Season (Gaoming Liu)
- Wild Swords (Yunbo Li)
- Summer is the Coldest Season (Sun Zhou)
- All About ING (Zi Huang)
Golden Firebird Award - Short Film
Best Director - Young Chinese Competition
Best Actress - Young Chinese Competition
Best Actor - Young Chinese Competition
Best Director - Young Cinema
Best Actress - Young Cinema
Best Actor - Young Cinema
Firebird Award - Special Mention (Young Cinema)
Firebird Award - Special Mention (Short Film)
FIPRESCI Prize
2019 - 43rd Hong Kong IFF
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
Golden Firebird Award - Young Chinese Competition
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Firebird Award - Documentary
- Midnight Family (Luke Lorentzen)
- Advocate (Philippe Bellaiche, Rachel Leah Jones)
- Honeyland (Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov)
- Los reyes (Ivan Osnovikoff, Bettina Perut)
- M (Yolande Zauberman)
- Sea of Shadows (Richard Ladkani)
- Still Recording (Saeed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub)
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
- You Have The Night (Ivan Salatic)
- Campo (Tiago Hespanha)
- Cronofobia (Francesco Rizzi)
- Queen of Hearts (May el-Toukhy)
- Hellhole (Bas Devos)
- Irina (Nadejda Koseva)
- The Gold-Laden Sheep & the Sacred Mountain (Ridham Janve)
Golden Firebird Award - Young Chinese Competition
- A First Farewell (Lina Wang)
- A Dog Barking at the Moon (Lisa Zi Xiang)
- Give Me a Ride (Zhenhao Xu)
- The Fading Village (Jiang Xing)
- The Crossing (Bai Xue)
- A Land Imagined (Siew Hua Yeo)
- Vanishing Days (Xin Zhu)
- Three Adventures of Brooke (Sissi Deng)
Golden Firebird Award - Short Film
- All These Creatures (Charles Williams)
- Down There (Zhengfan Yang)
- Prisoner of Society (Rati Tsiteladze)
- The Call (Anca Damian)
- The Last Post Office (Aung Rakhine)
- The Mute (Pham Thien An)
- Judgement (Raymund Ribay Gutierrez)
Best Director - Young Chinese Competition
Best Actress - Young Chinese Competition
Best Actor - Young Chinese Competition
Best Director - Young Cinema
Best Actress - Young Cinema
Best Actor - Young Cinema
FIPRESCI Prize
Jury Prize - Short Film
Jury Prize - Documentary
2018 - 42nd Hong Kong IFF
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Firebird Award - Documentary
- Of Love & Law (Hikaru Toda)
- The Other Side of Everything (Mila Turajlić)
- Eldorado (Markus Imhoof)
- Inland Sea (Kazuhiro Sôda)
- Mama (Xingzheng Jin)
- Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle (Gustavo Salmerón)
- The Distant Barking of Dogs (Simon Lereng Wilmont)
- Young Solitude (Claire Simon)
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
- Girls Always Happy (Yang Mingming)
- Daughter of Mine (Laura Bispuri)
- Angels Wear White (Vivian Qu)
- Pity (Babis Makridis)
- Styx (Wolfgang Fischer)
- Wangdrak’s Rain Boots (Lhapal Gyal)
Golden Firebird Award - Short Film
- Wicked Girl (Ayçe Kartal)
- Accidence (Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin)
- An Excavation of Us (Shirley Bruno)
- Blau (David Jansen)
- Young Girls Vanish (Clément Pinteaux)
- You Will be Fine (Céline Devaux)
- The Tasmanian Tiger (Vergine Keaton)
- My Burden (Niki Lindroth von Bahr)
- The Hooligan Soul (Marco Antônio Pereira)
- While I yet Live (Maris Curran)
- Wren Boys (Harry Lighton)
- A Gentle Night (Qiu Yang)
Firebird Award - Special Mention (Documentary)
FIPRESCI Prize
Jury Prize - Short Film
Jury Prize - Documentary
Jury Prize - Young Cinema
Audience Choice Award
2017 - 41st Hong Kong IFF
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Firebird Award - Documentary
- House in the Fields (Tala Hadid)
- An Insignificant Man (Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla)
- El mar la mar (Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki)
- The Sea Stares at Us from Afar (Manuel Muñoz Rivas)
- Factory Youth (Guo Xizhi)
- Devil's Freedom (Everardo González)
- Untitled (Michael Glawogger, Monika Willi)
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
- My Happy Family (Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Gross)
- The Taste of Betel Nut (Hu Jia)
- Happy Bus Day (Seung-won Lee)
- Three Lights (吉田光希)
- Newton (Amit Masurkar)
- Occidental (Neil Beloufa)
- Porto (Gabe Klinger)
- Stonehead (Xiang Zhao)
Golden Firebird Award - Short Film
FIPRESCI Prize
SIGNIS Award - Special Mention
Jury Prize - Young Cinema
Fresh Wave Award (Short Film) - Open Division
Audience Choice Award
2016 - 40th Hong Kong IFF
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Firebird Award - Documentary
- Behemoth (Liang Zhao)
- Eldorado XXI (Salomé Lamas)
- City of Jade (Midi Z)
- Those Who Jump (Abou Bakar Sidibé, Moritz Siebert, Estephan Wagner)
- Mariupolis (Mantas Kvedaravicius)
- The Land of the Enlightened (Pieter-Jan De Pue)
- The Witness (James D. Solomon)
- Under the Sun (Vitaly Mansky)
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
- Life After Life (Zhang Hanyi)
- Barakah Meets Barakah (Mahmoud Sabbagh)
- I, Olga Hepnarova (Petr Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb)
- Tomcat (Klaus Händl)
- Old Stone (Johnny Ma)
- The Island Funeral (Pimpaka Towira)
- Nakom (Kelly Daniela Norris, T.W. Pittman)
- Zud (Marta Minorowicz)
Golden Firebird Award - Short Film
FIPRESCI Prize
- The Island Funeral (Pimpaka Towira)
- Autohead (Rohit Mittal)
- Barakah Meets Barakah (Mahmoud Sabbagh)
- Hee (Kaori Momoi)
- The Name of the Whale (Fumito Fujikawa)
- I, Olga Hepnarova (Petr Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb)
- Tomcat (Klaus Händl)
- Old Stone (Johnny Ma)
- Nakom (Kelly Daniela Norris, T.W. Pittman)
- Viaje (Paz Fabrega)
- Life After Life (Zhang Hanyi)
- Zud (Marta Minorowicz)
SIGNIS Award
- Martin Zandvliet (Land of Mine)
- Visar Morina (Father)
- Mahmoud Sabbagh (Barakah Meets Barakah)
- Tobias Lindholm (A War)
- Johnny Ma (Old Stone)
- Joachim Lafosse (The White Knights)
- Ida Panahandeh (Nahid)
- Kelly Daniela Norris, T.W. Pittman (Nakom)
- António Borges Correia (Os Olhos de André)
- Atom Egoyan (Remember)
- Cesc Gay (Truman)
- Philippe Claudel (A Childhood)
SIGNIS Award - Special Mention
SIGNIS Award - Best Short
Jury Prize - Short Film
Jury Prize - Documentary
Jury Prize - Young Cinema
2015 - 39th Hong Kong IFF
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Firebird Award - Documentary
- I Am the People (Anna Roussillon)
- 1989 (Anders Østergaard, Erzsébet Rácz)
- Hotline (Leif Hansen)
- I Want to See the Manager (Hannes Lang)
- Manufacturing Romance (Chai Hongfang, Fan Jian)
- Nearby Sky (Nujoom Alghanem)
- A Young Patriot (Haibin Du)
- This Is My Land (Tamara Erde)
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
- Sworn Virgin (Laura Bispuri)
- Ata (Chakme Rinpoche)
- Borderless (Amirhossein Asgari)
- Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (Đăng Di Phan)
- K (Erdenibulag Darhad, Emyr ap Richard)
- Goat (Ivan Ostrochovský)
- Vanishing Point (Jakrawal Nilthamrong)
- Deep in the Heart (Yukun Xin)
Golden Firebird Award - Short Film
Firebird Award - Special Mention (Young Cinema)
Firebird Award - Special Mention (Short Film)
FIPRESCI Prize
- K (Erdenibulag Darhad, Emyr ap Richard)
- Ata (Chakme Rinpoche)
- Borderless (Amirhossein Asgari)
- Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (Đăng Di Phan)
- End of Winter (Dae-hwan Kim)
- Goat (Ivan Ostrochovský)
- Men Who Save the World (Liew Seng Tat)
- 40-Love (Stéphane Demoustier)
- Vanishing Point (Jakrawal Nilthamrong)
- Sworn Virgin (Laura Bispuri)
- Deep in the Heart (Yukun Xin)
- Zerrumpelt Herz (Timm Kröger)
SIGNIS Award
- Ruijun Li (River Road)
- Yann Demange ('71)
- Amirhossein Asgari (Borderless)
- Đăng Di Phan (Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories)
- Rolf de Heer (Charlie's Country)
- Dae-hwan Kim (End of Winter)
- Rakhshan Bani-Etemad (Tales)
- Ivan Ostrochovský (Goat)
- Paula van der Oest (Accused)
- Christian Petzold (Phoenix)
- Stéphane Demoustier (40-Love)
- Timm Kröger (Zerrumpelt Herz)
SIGNIS Award - Special Mention
Jury Prize - Short Film
Jury Prize - Documentary
Jury Prize - Young Cinema
2014 - 38th Hong Kong IFF
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Firebird Award - Documentary
- My Name is Salt (Farida Pacha)
- The Second Game (Corneliu Porumboiu)
- Cairo Drive (Sherief Elkatsha)
- Meat and Milk (Bernard Bloch)
- Flowing Stories (Jessey Tsang Tsui-Shan)
- The Last Moose of Aoluguya (Tao Gu)
- Concerning Violence (Göran Hugo Olsson)
- Web Junkie (Hilla Medalia, Shosh Shlam)
Golden Firebird Award - Young Cinema
- Macondo (Sudabeh Mortezai)
- Castanha (Davi Pretto)
- 40 Days of Silence (Saodat Ismailova)
- Forma (Ayumi Sakamoto)
- Shadow Days (Zhao Dayong)
- Exit (Hsiang Chienn)
- The Tale of Iya (Tetsuichirō Tsuta)
- Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (Josephine Decker)
Golden Firebird Award - Short Film
Firebird Award - Special Mention (Young Cinema)
Firebird Award - Special Mention (Documentary)
Firebird Award - Special Mention (Short Film)
FIPRESCI Prize
- 10 Minutes (Yong-seung Lee)
- Castanha (Davi Pretto)
- 40 Days of Silence (Saodat Ismailova)
- Forma (Ayumi Sakamoto)
- Shadow Days (Zhao Dayong)
- Exit (Hsiang Chienn)
- The Tale of Iya (Tetsuichirō Tsuta)
- Macondo (Sudabeh Mortezai)
- Lake August (Heng Yang)
- Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (Josephine Decker)
- Villa 69 (Ayten Amin)
- The Night (Hao Zhou)
SIGNIS Award
- Agnieszka Holland (Burning Bush)
- Midi Z (Ice Poison)
- Saodat Ismailova (40 Days of Silence)
- Rashid Masharawi (Palestine Stereo)
- Jasmila Žbanić (For Those Who Can Tell No Tales)
- Nao Kubota (Going Home)
- Tetsuichirō Tsuta (The Tale of Iya)
- Sólveig Anspach (Lulu in the Nude)
- Jun Lana (Barber's Tales)
- Penny Panayotopoulou (September)
- Richie Mehta (Siddharth)
- Emir Baigazin (Harmony Lessons)