| Kim Jiseok Award | |
| Awarded For: | Two best films in the competition category for the Asian directors who have directed more than three feature films |
| Presenter: | Busan International Film Festival |
| Country: | South Korea |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Year2: | 2024 |
| Holder: | Village Rockstars 2 by Rima Das, India Yen and Ai-Lee by Tom Lin Shu-yu, Taiwan |
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.[1] During the same year, the award was first created.[2]
Each year, two films are selected and awarded a cash prize of US$10,000 each.[3] 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.[4]
| Year | Jury | width=35% | Film | width=35% | Director | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 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 |
| Rona, Azim's Mother | Jamshid Mahmoudi | |||
| The Rib | Zhang Wei | |||||
| 27 Steps of May | Ravi Bharwani | [5] | ||||
| 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 |
| Circus of Life | Sarmad Khoosat | [6] | ||
| Market | Pradip Kurbah | |||||
| Bitter Chestnut | Gurvinder Singh | [7] | ||||
| Cinema Donkey | Shahed Ahmadlou | |||||
| It Stopped Raining | Nakagawa Ryutaro | |||||
| The Promised Land | Takahisa Zeze | |||||
| Suk Suk | Ray Yeung | |||||
| Where We Belong | Kongdej Jaturanrasamee | |||||
| 2020 | Drowning in Holy Water | Navid Mahmoudi | [8] | |||
| The Slaughterhouse | Abbas Amini | |||||
| 2021 |
| Gensan Punch | Brillante Mendoza | [9] | ||
| The Rapist | Aparna Sen | |||||
| 24 | Royston Tan | [10] | ||||
| The Bargain | Wang Qi | |||||
| No Land's Man | Mostofa Sarwar Farooki | |||||
| Riverside Mukolitta | Naoko Ogigami | |||||
| Sughra's Sons | Ilgar Najaf | |||||
| 2022 |
| Alteration | Yalkin Tuychiev | [11] | ||
| Scent of Wind | Hadi Mohaghegh | |||||
| December | Anshul Chauhan | [12] | ||||
| Life & Life | Ali Ghavitan | |||||
| Seventeeners | Prithvi Konanur | |||||
| Six Characters | M.L. Pundhevanop Dhewakul | |||||
| Storyteller | Anant Mahadevan | |||||
| A Wing and a Prayer | Lee Kwang-kuk | |||||
| 2023 |
| Bride Abduction | Mirlan Abdikhalikov | [13] | ||
| Paradise | Prasanna Vithanage | |||||
| 24 Hours with Gaspar | Yosep Anggi Noen | [14] | ||||
| 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 | |||||
| 2024 |
| Village Rockstars 2 | Rima Das | [15] | ||
| 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 | |||||