HONG Sangsoo, RYOO Seung-wan and KWON Oh-kwang Headed to TIFF
A trio of Korean films, representing very different sides of the industry, were announced this week as part of the second wave of the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Screening in the Masters section will be
HONG Sangsoo’s latest film
Right Now, Wrong Then, while
RYOO Seung-wan’s current chart-topper
Veteran and newcomer
KWON Oh-kwang’s
Collective Invention have both secured a berth in the Vanguard program.
The 17th film by respected auteur HONG,
Right Now, Wrong Then stars
KIM Min-hee (in a HONG film for the first time) and
JUNG Jae-young, as well as
YU Jun-sang and
KO Asung, also a HONG neophyte. The film premieres this week in competition at the Locarno International Film Festival. The invitation marks HONG’s fourth consecutive appearance at TIFF, following
In Another Country (2012),
Our Sunhi (2013) and
Hill of Freedom last year, and ninth selection overall.
The Vanguard section, which last invited a Korean film in 2013 (
YEON Sang-ho’s
The Fake), this year features a brace of films from the peninsula. Among those are RYOO Seung-wan’s kinetic action-thriller
Veteran, starring
HWANG Jung-min, which opened to rave reviews this past week in Korea and is commanding the charts, and the high concept mutation comedy
Collective Invention from first time director KWON Oh-kwang. The film features
PARK Bo-young, who was last seen at Toronto in 2012’s
A Werewolf Boy.
With still some sections to be revealed, this year’s 40th TIFF will run over September 10-20.