Dragons and Tigers Award

VIFF Dragons and Tigers Award for Young Cinema is an award from the Vancouver International Film Festival for a film director from Asia-Pacific region. It awards a creative and innovative film, made early in the director's career, which has not yet won significant international recognition. Since its inception in 1994, nominated films have been selected by film scholar and critic Tony Rayns.

Tony Rayns also curates all non-Chinese language film featured in the Dragons and Tigers category. Chinese-language film scholar Shelly Kraicer also joined Dragons and Tigers as curator in 2007 for Chinese-language films.

Award winners

Year	Film	Director	Country of origin
1994	This Window Is Yours	Tomoyuki Furumaya	Japan
1995	Goldfish	Wu Di	China
	Maborosi	Koreeda Hirokazu	Japan
1996	The Day a Pig Fell into the Well	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea
	Rain Clouds over Wushan	Zhang Ming	China
1997	Green Fish	Lee Chang-dong	South Korea
1998	Xiao Wu	Jia Zhangke	China/Hong Kong
1999	Nana/No-Go	Hayakawa Wataru	Japan
2000	Tears of the Black Tiger	Wisit Sasanatieng	Thailand
2001	Mirror Image	Hsiao Ya-Chuan	Taiwan
2002	Shanghai Panic	Andrew Y-S Cheng	China
2003	Uniform	Diao Yinan	China
2004	The Soup, One Morning	Takahashi Izumi	Japan
2005	Oxhide	Liu Jiayin	China
2006	Todo Todo Terros	John Torres	The Philippines
2007	Fujian Blue	Weng Shouming	China
	Mid-Afternoon Barks	Zhang Yuedong	China
2008	Perfect Life	Emily Tang	Hong Kong/China
2009	Eighteen	Jang Kun-Jae	South Korea
2010	Good Morning to the World!	Hirohara Saturo	Japan
2011	The Sun-Beaten Path	Sonthar Gyal	China
2012	Emperor Visits the Hell	Li Luo	China
2013	Anatomy of a Paperclip	Ikeda Akira	Japan

External links

• Awards at the Vancouver International Film Festival