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Much like last year’s comprehensive HONG Sangsoo retrospective, the Kino Arsenal theater in Berlin, Germany is planning to stage a month-long look at director KIM Ki-duk’s career this September

 

Following his start in 1996 with Crocodile, KIM has been a consistent presence on the Korean independent scene that broke out onto the international scene through the success of his controversial work The Isle in 2000. Over the following years, a number of his works have featured prominently at some of the world’s largest festivals. In 2004, he earned both the Silver Bear for Samaritan Girl from the Berlin International Film Festival and the Silver Lion for 3-Iron from the Venice International Film Festival.

 

Following a self-imposed exile from filmmaking in 2008, KIM staged a grand comeback by winning the Un Certain Regard prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his autobiographical work Arirang in 2011. The following year he reached the pinnacle of his career when his 17th feature film Pieta won him the Golden Lion at the Biennale, the first time that any Korean filmmaker has earned the top award at one of the world’s top festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice).

 

The Kino Arsenal program for September notes how “The chronicles of the (sub)proletariat in the films of the Korean director Kim Ki-duk... ...can be seen as the reflection of a national trauma, which has engraved itself on hurt and hurting bodies.” 17 of the auteur’s works will be screened, which represents the entirety of his oeuvre, save for his brand new film Moebius, which will receive its world premiere on September 3rd at the Venice International Film Festival, and Amen, his second 2011 film that he has chosen never to screen again.

 

The retrospective, which will run throughout September, includes: Crocodile (1996), Wild Animals (1997), Birdcage Inn (1998), The Isle (2000), Real Fiction (2000), Address Unknown (2001), Bad Guy (2002), The Coast Guard (2002), Spring, Summer, Fall Winter and Spring (2003), 3-Iron (2004), Samaritan Girl (2004), The Bow (2005), Time (2006), Breath (2007), Dream (2008), Arirang (2011), Pieta (2012).