Director：HONG Sang-soo

Born in 1961 in Seoul. After studying filmmaking at Chungang University, he acquired his bachelor's and master's degrees in fine arts in the US. Then he traveled to France where he frequented the Cinematheque Francaise. Returning to South Korea, he made his directorial debut in 1996 with "The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well" which won awards at the Vancouver and Rotterdam intemational film festivals. 2004's "Woman is the Future of Man" was his first to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival's Competition Section. Thereafter he achieved a remarkable accomplish-ment of having 7 consecutive films, from "Night and Day" (2008) to "Nobody's Daughter Haewon" (2013), screened at the top three international film festivals: Cannes, Venice, and Berlin. His recent works include "Right Now, Wrong Then" (2015),""Yourself and Yours" (2016), "On the Beach at Night Alone" (2017), "Claire's Camera" (2017), "The Day After" (2017), "Grass" (2018) and "Hotel by the River" (2018), “The Woman Who Ran (2020), “Introduction" (2021), “In Front of Your Face” (2021), and “The Novelist's Film" (2022).