‘On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate - Hong Sangsoo’

Well-known theatre actor Gyung-soo, struggling to find roles, visits a provincial town at a friend's invitation. There, he meets Myung-soo, a dancer his friend likes. After a drunken night, she chooses Gyung-soo instead, straining their friendship. As Gyung-soo leaves, a mysterious woman on the train claims to know him. Intrigued, Gyung-soo gets of the train in her pursuit and turns the whole story upside down.

The first screening of the film On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate will be introduced by Dennis Lim, film curator, author of the Fireflies publication on Hong Sangsoo's cinema A Tale of Cinema that came out in 2022. Dennis Lim is currently the Artistic Director of the New York Film Festival and was Director of Programming at Film at Lincoln Center in New York from 2013 to 2022. His previous book David Lynch: The Man From Another Place (2015) has been translated into three languages.

For two weeks, Bozar offers an extensive programme consisting of nine films featuring some of Hong Sangsoo's earliest works and a selection of the films he made in his most recent years. Hong Sangsoo first gained attention in 1996 with The Day a Pig Fell into the Well. Over the years, he has earned numerous international awards. Besides being a professor of screenwriting and directing in Seoul, he remains one of the most inventive and prolific filmmakers in contemporary cinema.