Cinematheque•Passion said in a statement on Friday that it is slated to hold the “Director-in-Focus: Hong Sangsoo Film Festival” from this Saturday through May 11, with the event showcasing 11 of the South Korean director’s representative works.
Hong, Wikipedia notes, is “known for his slow-paced films about love affairs and everyday dilemmas in contemporary South Korea”.
With a career spanning nearly thirty years, the statement said, the festival will showcase Hong’s early, middle and recent “masterpieces”. Among them are his 1996 directorial debut “The Day a Pig Fell into the Well”, which won the Golden Tiger Award for Best Film at the Rotterdam Film Festival; the Cannes Film Festival selected 2011 black and white film “The Day He Arrives”; and the 2024 film A Traveler’s Needs, which, according to Wikipedia, premiered in the Main Competition of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize. It was shot with a small independent film team.
Other films include The Power of Kangwon Province (1998), Hill of Freedom (2014) and The Novelist’s Film (2022), the statement said, with more programme details available on www.cinematheque-passion.mo.
The cinematheque’s “film information room” is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, but closed on Mondays. The box office is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.
More information can also be found by following the cinematheque’s Facebook or Instagram page.
This poster provided by Cinematheque•Passion on Friday promotes the Director-in-Focus: Hong Sangsoo Film Festival, which is slated to start this Saturday.
