June Screenings

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• Director: Hong Sang-soo
• KOREA / 2021 / DCP / B&W / 66’ / Korean; Turkish s.t., English s.t.

• Screenplay: Hong Sang-soo
• Director of Photography: Hong Sang-soo
• Editing: Hong Sang-soo
• Music: Hong Sang-soo
• Cast: Shin Seokho, Park Miso, Kim Youngho, Ki Joobong, Seo Younghwa, Kim Minhee, Cho Yunhee, Ye Jiwon, Ha Seongguk
• Producer: Hong Sang-soo
• Production Co.: Jeonwonsa
• World Sales: Finecut

This film is screened within the Best of the Fests section.

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2021 Berlin Best Screenplay

Winning the Best Director Award in 2020 with The Woman Who Ran, Hong Sang-soo wins the Best Screenplay Award in 2021 with his shorter but emotionally buoyant recent work. Returning to black and white, Sang-soo takes on the cinematography as well alongside the screenwriting, direction, editing, and the soundtrack composition of the film, which comprises of two halves separated by two years. In the first part, a young student arrives in Berlin to stay at a friend of her mother’s. In the second part, back in Korea, her boyfriend visits his own mother and meets her elderly friend. Naturally, Sang-soo’s recurring motifs such as bottles of soju, food tables, complex webs of relationship, long conversations find their way in the film.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.