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LEE Kang-hyun

Director, Director of Photography, Screenwriter

LEE Kang-hyun started out as a documentarist, his first film being <The Description of Bankruptcy> (2006) which was invited to the Yamagata International Documentary Festival and the Jeonju International Film Festival. He followed it up with <The Color of Pain> (2010), which touched on capitalism, labor and society and earned him a Special Mention of the Jury in Jeonju.
He made his debut in fiction with <Possible Faces> (2017), a film clearly shaped in...More


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Awards and Invitation

<Possible Faces> DMZ International Documentary Film Festival (2023) - Memorial LEE Kang-hyun
<The Description of Bankruptcy> Independent Film Festival BUSAN (2023)
<The Color of Pain> Independent Film Festival BUSAN (2023)
<Possible Faces> Independent Film Festival BUSAN (2023)
<The Color of Pain> DMZ International Documentary Film Festival (2023) - Memorial LEE Kang-hyun
<The Description of Bankruptcy> DMZ International Documentary Film Festival (2023) - Memorial LEE Kang-hyun
<Possible Faces> Chuncheon International Film Festival : CIFF (2019)
<The Color of Pain> DMZ International Documentary Film Festival (2019) - Specai Focus
<Possible Faces> Busan Film Critics Association Awards (2019) - Special Jury Prize
<The Description of Bankruptcy> Indie Forum (2018) - Indie Now
<Possible Faces> London Korean Film Festival (2018) - Special Focus: A Slice of Everyday Life
<Possible Faces> Indie Forum (2018) - Indie Now
<Possible Faces> FIDMarseille - Marseille International Film Festival (2018) - International Competition
<Possible Faces> Seoul Independent Film Festival : SIFF (2017) - Competition - Features - Determination Award
<Possible Faces> Seoul Independent Film Festival : SIFF (2017) - Competition - Features - Jury Prize
<Possible Faces> Busan International Film Festival : BIFF (2017) - Korean Cinema Today - Citizen Critics' Award
<Possible Faces> Jeju Film Festival (2017) - A New Film
<The Color of Pain> Seoul International Eco Film Festival : SIEFF (2011) - Green Panorama in Korea
<The Color of Pain> FIDMarseille - Marseille International Film Festival (2011) - International Competition
<The Color of Pain> Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival : CinDi (2011) - Butterfly
<The Color of Pain> Cinemanila International Film Festival (2011) - Documentaries
<The Description of Bankruptcy> International Amsterdam Film Festival (2008)
<The Description of Bankruptcy> Taiwan International Documentary Festival (2008) - Globalization
<The Description of Bankruptcy> Seoul Human Rights Film Festival (2007)
<The Description of Bankruptcy> Chicago Underground Film Festival (2007)
<The Description of Bankruptcy> Seoul Independent Film Festival : SIFF (2006)

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