Kim Jiseok Award

Kim Jiseok Award
Awarded forTwo best films in the competition category for the Asian directors who have directed more than three feature films
CountrySouth Korea
Presented byBusan International Film Festival
First awarded2017
Last awarded2024
Currently held byVillage Rockstars 2 by Rima Das, India
Yen and Ai-Lee by Tom Lin Shu-yu, Taiwan
Websitebiff.kr

The Kim Jiseok Award (Korean: 김지석 상) 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]

Films

Rima Das 2024 award winner
Year Jury Film Director Ref.
2017 Malila: The Farewell Flower Anucha Boonyawatana
[5]
The Scythian Lamb Daihachi Yoshida
Ash Li Xiaofeng
[6]
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
[7]
The Rib Zhang Wei
27 Steps of May Ravi Bharwani [8]
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 [9]
Market Pradip Kurbah
Bitter Chestnut Gurvinder Singh [10]
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 [11]
The Slaughterhouse Abbas Amini
2021 Gensan Punch Brillante Mendoza [12]
The Rapist Aparna Sen
24 Royston Tan [13]
The Bargain Wang Qi
No Land's Man Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Riverside Mukolitta Naoko Ogigami
Sughra's Sons Ilgar Najaf
2022 Alteration Yalkin Tuychiev [14]
Scent of Wind Hadi Mohaghegh
December Anshul Chauhan [15]
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 [16]
Paradise Prasanna Vithanage
24 Hours with Gaspar Yosep Anggi Noen [17]
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 [18]
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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