Asian Film Award for Best New Director

Asian Film Awards
for Best New Director
Asian Film Awards; for Best New Director
Awarded for	Best New Director in Asian Cinema in the year
Presented by	Hong Kong International Film Festival Society
First awarded	2018
Last awarded	2024
Winner (2024)	Hirokazu Kore-eda – Monster
Website	AFA

Asian Film Award for Best New Director has been awarded annually since 2018 by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Year	Winner and nominees	English title	Original title
2018 (12th)^[2]
	Dong Yue	The Looming Storm	暴雪将至
	Vivian Qu	Angels Wear White	嘉年华
	Anucha Boonyawatana	Malila: The Farewell Flower	มะลิลา
	Huang Hsin-yao	The Great Buddha+	大佛普拉斯
	Yoshiyuki Kishi	Wilderness	あゝ、荒野
	Derek Hui	This Is Not What I Expected	喜欢你
2019 (13th)^[3]	Oliver Siu Kuen Chan	Still Human	沦落人
	Yeo Siew Hua	A Land Imagined	幻土
	Rima Das	Bulbul Can Sing	बुलबुल गा सकती है
	Phuttiphong Aroonpheng	Manta Ray	กระเบนราหู
	Shinichirou Ueda	One Cut of the Dead	カメラを止めるな!
	Bai Xue	The Crossing	过春天

Year	Winner and nominees	English title	Original title
2020 (14th)^[4]	Hikari	37 Seconds
	John Hsu	Detention	返校
	Liang Ming	Wisdom Tooth
	Lee Sang-geun	Exit	엑시트
	Norris Wong	My Prince Edward	金都
	Sharipa Urazbayeva	Mariam
2021 (15th)^[5]	Hong Eui-jeong	Voice of Silence	소리도 없이
	Yūjirō Harumoto	A Balance
	PS Vinothraj	Pebbles	Koozhangal
	Yin Ruoxi	Sisters	我的姐姐
	Han Shuai	Summer Blur
	Ahmad Bahrami	The Wasteland	خامو شدشت
2022 (16th)^[6]
	Jigme Trinley	One and Four
	Makbul Mubarak	Autobiography
	Saim Sadiq	Joyland
	Chie Hayakawa	Plan 75
	Kim Se-in	The Apartment with Two Women	같은 속옷을 입는 두 여자