Hong Sang-soo began his career in 1996 with a debut feature, The Day a Pig Fell into the Well. Each of the 23 films that he has since written and directed is characterised by a complex and perfectly organised structure, even though everything in it seem to happen randomly following the impromptu events that his characters encounter. In 2011, the Cinémathèque Française devoted a first retrospective to him. In 2014, he won the Montgolfière d’Or for Hill of Freedom. In 2015, he was awarded the Léopard d’Or at Locarno Festival for Right Now; Wrong Then. In 2016, he won the “Grand Prix d’honneur” at the FIDMarseille festival.
HONG Sang-soo
Director, Screenwriter
Films programmed at the festival
Grass
(Grass)
(Grass)
by Sang-soo HONG
Hill Of Freedom
(Jayueui onduk)
(Jayueui onduk)
by Sang-soo HONG
In Front of Your Face
(Dangsin-eolgul-apeseo)
(Dangsin-eolgul-apeseo)
by Sang-soo HONG
The Novelist's Film
(So-seol-ga-ui yeong-hwa)
(So-seol-ga-ui yeong-hwa)
by Sang-soo HONG
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
(Oh! Soo-jung)
(Oh! Soo-jung)
by Sang-soo HONG
The Day a Pig Fell into the Well
(Daijiga umule pajinnal)
(Daijiga umule pajinnal)
by Sang-soo HONG
The Day he Arrives
(Book chon bang hyang)
(Book chon bang hyang)
by Sang-soo HONG
Our Sunhi
(U ri Sunhi)
(U ri Sunhi)
by Sang-soo HONG
Right Now, Wrong Then
(Ji-geum-eun-mat-go-geu-ddae-neun-teul-li-da)
(Ji-geum-eun-mat-go-geu-ddae-neun-teul-li-da)
by Sang-soo HONG
On the Beach at Night Alone
(Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja)
(Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja)
by Sang-soo HONG
