The Kim Jiseok Award () is an annual film award, presented by the Busan International Film Festival, to films in the competition category for the Korean and Asian directors who have directed more than three feature films. The award is named after the late Kim Jiseok, the festival's co-founder, deputy director, and head programmer, who died in May 2017. During the same year, the award was first created.
Each year, two films are selected and awarded a cash prize of US$10,000 each. Since its inception until 2021, the winners are selected from the festival's A Window on Asian Cinema section. In 2022, the festival launched the award's own competition section.
The award was discontinued from 2025 and the New Currents and Kim Jiseok categories were merged into new updated competitive section.
Films
YearJury Film DirectorRef. 2017 Tony Rayns Darcy Paquet Garin Nugroho Malila: The Farewell Flower Anucha Boonyawatana The Scythian Lamb Daihachi Yoshida Ash Li Xiaofeng The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful Yang Ya-che The Carousel Never Stops Turning Ismail Basbeth Goodbye Kathmandu Nabin Subba In the Shadows Dipesh Jain Silent Mist Zhang Miaoyan Smaller and Smaller Circles Raya Martin Wilderness Kishi Yoshiyuki 2018 Justin Chang Hayashi Kanako Eric Khoo Rona, Azim's Mother Jamshid Mahmoudi The Rib Zhang Wei 27 Steps of May Ravi Bharwani Asandhimitta Asoka Handagama Bhonsle Devashish Makhija Dare to Stop Us Kazuya Shiraishi Demons Daniel Hui The Secret of a Leader Farkhat Sharipov Widow of Silence Praveen Morchhale 2019 Mohsen Makhmalbaf Huh Moonyung Tan Chui Mui Circus of Life Sarmad Khoosat Iewduh Pradip Kurbah Bitter Chestnut Gurvinder Singh Cinema Donkey Shahed Ahmadlou It Stopped Raining Nakagawa Ryutaro The Promised Land Takahisa Zeze Suk Suk Ray Yeung Where We Belong Kongdej Jaturanrasamee 2020 Zhao Tao Jung Sung-il Mouly Surya Drowning in Holy Water Navid Mahmoudi The Slaughterhouse Abbas Amini Kayattam Sanal Kumar Sasidharan 2021 Reza Mirkarimi Gulnara Abikeyeva Kim Haery Gensan Punch Brillante Mendoza The Rapist Aparna Sen 24 Royston Tan The Bargain Wang Qi No Land's Man Mostofa Sarwar Farooki Riverside Mukolitta Naoko Ogigami Sughra's Sons Ilgar Najaf 2022Jean-Michel Frodon Naoko Ogigami Kim Hee-jung Alteration Yalkin Tuychiev Scent of Wind Hadi Mohaghegh December Anshul Chauhan Life & Life Ali Ghavitan Seventeeners Prithvi Konanur Six Characters M.L. Pundhevanop Dhewakul Storyteller Anant Mahadevan A Wing and a Prayer Lee Kwang-kuk 2023Martin Thérouanne Miwa Nishikawa Lee Kwang-kuk Bride Abduction Mirlan Abdikhalikov Paradise Prasanna Vithanage 24 Hours with Gaspar Yosep Anggi Noen At the End of the Film Ahn Seon-kyung Blesser Lee Sang-cheol Doi Boy Nontawat Numbenchapol Ichiko Akihiro Toda The Moon Yuya Ishii Moro Brillante Mendoza Something Like an Autobiography Mostofa Sarwar Farooki 2024Christian Jeune Prasanna Vithanage Shin Su-won Village Rockstars 2 Rima Das Yen and Ai-Lee Tom Lin Shu-yu Aimitagai Kusano Shogo Deal at the Border Dastan Zhapar Ryskeldi I Am Love Baek Sung-bin Motherland Brillante Mendoza So It Goes Lee Ha-ram Travelling Alone Ishibashi Yuho
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