LEE Chang-dong and Hong Sangsoo Return for 53rd Edition of KVIFF
Korean auteurs
LEE Chang-dong and
Hong Sangsoo have been invited to the prestigious Karlovy Vary International Film Festival with their latest films, the arthouse dramas
BURNING and
Grass. This year’s 53rd edition of KVIFF kicks off on June 29.
Director LEE’s the first film after an eight-year break,
BURNING, debuted in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where it picked up the FIPRESCI Prize and the Vulcan Award for the Technical Artist. An adaption of MURAKAMI Haruki’s short story ‘Barn Burning’, the film stars
YOO Ah-in (
Veteran, 2015) as a poor writer who becomes infatuated with a young woman (played by newcomer
JUN Jong-seo) even after she begins to meet the mysterious playboy Ben, played by
Steven YEUN (
Okja, 2017).
BURNING, which is LEE’s fourth work invited to the festival, will screen in the ‘Horizons’ section.