Jury & Awards
Jury
LEE Kang-sheng
Actor / Taiwan
Lee Kang-sheng, born in Taipei in 1968, is a Taiwanese actor, director and screenwriter. He began his film career in 1992 with Tsai Ming-liang’s Rebels of the Neon God and has since become the central performer in most of Tsai’s films, stage works and Walker series. His restrained, precise and physically expressive performance style has made him one of the defining actors of contemporary Chinese-language art cinema. For Vive L’Amour (1994), Lee won Best Actor at the Festival des 3 Continents in Nantes and was nominated for Best Leading Actor at the Golden Horse Awards. His performance in Stray Dogs earned him Best Leading Actor at the 50th Golden Horse Awards, the Taipei Film Awards and the Asia-Pacific Film Festival. In 2024, he starred in Yeo Siew Hua’s Stranger Eye
Awards
An international jury will select the award-winning films from the Competition lineup, to be announced at the awards ceremony.
- Best Picture Award
- The director receives a cash prize of 700,000 yen.
- Special Jury Prize
- The director receives a cash prize of 300,000 yen.
- Audience Award
- Selected by audience vote (eligible films to be announced once the schedule is finalized).
- Student Jury Award
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The "Student Jury Award," organized by the Tokyo Student Film Festival, is judged by student jurors on Competition films, with the winner announced at the awards ceremony. The Tokyo Student Film Festival handles everything from selecting student jurors to running the award.
Tokyo Student Film Festival