# Kim Jiseok Award

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. 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.

## Films

| Year | Jury | Film | Director |
| 2017 | Tony Rayns Darcy Paquet Garin Nugroho | Malila: The Farewell Flower | Anucha Boonyawatana |
| 2017 | Tony Rayns Darcy Paquet Garin Nugroho | The Scythian Lamb | Daihachi Yoshida |
| 2017 | Tony Rayns Darcy Paquet Garin Nugroho | Ash | Li Xiaofeng |
| 2017 | Tony Rayns Darcy Paquet Garin Nugroho | The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful | Yang Ya-che |
| 2017 | Tony Rayns Darcy Paquet Garin Nugroho | The Carousel Never Stops Turning | Ismail Basbeth |
| 2017 | Tony Rayns Darcy Paquet Garin Nugroho | Goodbye Kathmandu | Nabin Subba |
| 2017 | Tony Rayns Darcy Paquet Garin Nugroho | In the Shadows | Dipesh Jain |
| 2017 | Tony Rayns Darcy Paquet Garin Nugroho | Silent Mist | Zhang Miaoyan |
| 2017 | Tony Rayns Darcy Paquet Garin Nugroho | Smaller and Smaller Circles | Raya Martin |
| 2017 | Tony Rayns Darcy Paquet Garin Nugroho | Wilderness | Kishi Yoshiyuki |
| 2018 | Justin Chang Hayashi Kanako Eric Khoo | Rona, Azim's Mother | Jamshid Mahmoudi |
| 2018 | Justin Chang Hayashi Kanako Eric Khoo | The Rib | Zhang Wei |
| 2018 | Justin Chang Hayashi Kanako Eric Khoo | 27 Steps of May | Ravi Bharwani |
| 2018 | Justin Chang Hayashi Kanako Eric Khoo | Asandhimitta | Asoka Handagama |
| 2018 | Justin Chang Hayashi Kanako Eric Khoo | Bhonsle | Devashish Makhija |
| 2018 | Justin Chang Hayashi Kanako Eric Khoo | Dare to Stop Us | Kazuya Shiraishi |
| 2018 | Justin Chang Hayashi Kanako Eric Khoo | Demons | Daniel Hui |
| 2018 | Justin Chang Hayashi Kanako Eric Khoo | The Secret of a Leader | Farkhat Sharipov |
| 2018 | Justin Chang Hayashi Kanako Eric Khoo | Widow of Silence | Praveen Morchhale |
| 2019 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf Huh Moonyung Tan Chui Mui | Circus of Life | Sarmad Khoosat |
| 2019 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf Huh Moonyung Tan Chui Mui | Market | Pradip Kurbah |
| 2019 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf Huh Moonyung Tan Chui Mui | Bitter Chestnut | Gurvinder Singh |
| 2019 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf Huh Moonyung Tan Chui Mui | Cinema Donkey | Shahed Ahmadlou |
| 2019 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf Huh Moonyung Tan Chui Mui | It Stopped Raining | Nakagawa Ryutaro |
| 2019 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf Huh Moonyung Tan Chui Mui | The Promised Land | Takahisa Zeze |
| 2019 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf Huh Moonyung Tan Chui Mui | Suk Suk | Ray Yeung |
| 2019 | Mohsen Makhmalbaf Huh Moonyung Tan Chui Mui | Where We Belong | Kongdej Jaturanrasamee |
| 2020 | Zhao Tao Jung Sung-il Mouly Surya | Drowning in Holy Water | Navid Mahmoudi |
| 2020 | Zhao Tao Jung Sung-il Mouly Surya | The Slaughterhouse | Abbas Amini |
| 2021 | Reza Mirkarimi Gulnara Abikeyeva Kim Haery | Gensan Punch | Brillante Mendoza |
| 2021 | Reza Mirkarimi Gulnara Abikeyeva Kim Haery | The Rapist | Aparna Sen |
| 2021 | Reza Mirkarimi Gulnara Abikeyeva Kim Haery | 24 | Royston Tan |
| 2021 | Reza Mirkarimi Gulnara Abikeyeva Kim Haery | The Bargain | Wang Qi |
| 2021 | Reza Mirkarimi Gulnara Abikeyeva Kim Haery | No Land's Man | Mostofa Sarwar Farooki |
| 2021 | Reza Mirkarimi Gulnara Abikeyeva Kim Haery | Riverside Mukolitta | Naoko Ogigami |
| 2021 | Reza Mirkarimi Gulnara Abikeyeva Kim Haery | Sughra's Sons | Ilgar Najaf |
| 2022 | Jean-Michel Frodon Naoko Ogigami Kim Hee-jung | Alteration | Yalkin Tuychiev |
| 2022 | Jean-Michel Frodon Naoko Ogigami Kim Hee-jung | Scent of Wind | Hadi Mohaghegh |
| 2022 | Jean-Michel Frodon Naoko Ogigami Kim Hee-jung | December | Anshul Chauhan |
| 2022 | Jean-Michel Frodon Naoko Ogigami Kim Hee-jung | Life & Life | Ali Ghavitan |
| 2022 | Jean-Michel Frodon Naoko Ogigami Kim Hee-jung | Seventeeners | Prithvi Konanur |
| 2022 | Jean-Michel Frodon Naoko Ogigami Kim Hee-jung | Six Characters | M.L. Pundhevanop Dhewakul |
| 2022 | Jean-Michel Frodon Naoko Ogigami Kim Hee-jung | Storyteller | Anant Mahadevan |
| 2022 | Jean-Michel Frodon Naoko Ogigami Kim Hee-jung | A Wing and a Prayer | Lee Kwang-kuk |
| 2023 | Martin Thérouanne Miwa Nishikawa Lee Kwang-kuk | Bride Abduction | Mirlan Abdikhalikov |
| 2023 | Martin Thérouanne Miwa Nishikawa Lee Kwang-kuk | Paradise | Prasanna Vithanage |
| 2023 | Martin Thérouanne Miwa Nishikawa Lee Kwang-kuk | 24 Hours with Gaspar | Yosep Anggi Noen |
| 2023 | Martin Thérouanne Miwa Nishikawa Lee Kwang-kuk | At the End of the Film | Ahn Seon-kyung |
| 2023 | Martin Thérouanne Miwa Nishikawa Lee Kwang-kuk | Blesser | Lee Sang-cheol |
| 2023 | Martin Thérouanne Miwa Nishikawa Lee Kwang-kuk | Doi Boy | Nontawat Numbenchapol |
| 2023 | Martin Thérouanne Miwa Nishikawa Lee Kwang-kuk | Ichiko | Akihiro Toda |
| 2023 | Martin Thérouanne Miwa Nishikawa Lee Kwang-kuk | The Moon | Yuya Ishii |
| 2023 | Martin Thérouanne Miwa Nishikawa Lee Kwang-kuk | Moro | Brillante Mendoza |
| 2023 | Martin Thérouanne Miwa Nishikawa Lee Kwang-kuk | Something Like an Autobiography | Mostofa Sarwar Farooki |
| 2024 | Christian Jeune Prasanna Vithanage Shin Su-won | Village Rockstars 2 | Rima Das |
| 2024 | Christian Jeune Prasanna Vithanage Shin Su-won | Yen and Ai-Lee | Tom Lin Shu-yu |
| 2024 | Christian Jeune Prasanna Vithanage Shin Su-won | Aimitagai | Kusano Shogo |
| 2024 | Christian Jeune Prasanna Vithanage Shin Su-won | Deal at the Border | Dastan Zhapar Ryskeldi |
| 2024 | Christian Jeune Prasanna Vithanage Shin Su-won | I Am Love | Baek Sung-bin |
| 2024 | Christian Jeune Prasanna Vithanage Shin Su-won | Motherland | Brillante Mendoza |
| 2024 | Christian Jeune Prasanna Vithanage Shin Su-won | So It Goes | Lee Ha-ram |
| 2024 | Christian Jeune Prasanna Vithanage Shin Su-won | Travelling Alone | Ishibashi Yuho |