South Korean director Yang Ik-june’s movie “Breathless” is continuing to fetch positive international recognition.

The independent film won the Golden Durian Award at the Eleventh Barcelona Asian Film Festival on Monday. As part of the award, Yang received six-thousand euros, or some eight-thousand U.S. dollars.

The movie depicts the life of a violent gangster who begins to reflect on his past after befriending a school girl who, like him, comes from a dysfunctional family.

The movie has also won awards at the Netherlands’ International Film Festival Rotterdam and France’s Deauville Asian Film Festival.