Cinema Guild has picked up North American distribution rights for “The Day She Returns,” the newest characteristic from acclaimed South Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo. The movie world premieres right this moment on the 76th Berlin Movie Pageant, marking Hong’s seventh consecutive 12 months with a movie on the Berlinale.
“The Day She Returns” stars Tune Sunmi as an actress who stepped again from performing after marriage and a subsequent divorce, and makes a comeback with a task in an impartial movie.
Sunmi stars reverse longtime collaborators Cho Yunhee (“The Day After”) and Park Miso (“Introduction”).
“The magic of Hong Sangsoo is countless,” mentioned Cinema Guild president Peter Kelly, who negotiated the take care of Finecut’s Youngjoo Suh. “Watching ‘The Day She Returns’ was like discovering that magic once more,” he continued. A prolific filmmaker, Hong Sangsoo has written and directed 34 characteristic movies and several other shorts since 1996. “The Day She Returns” was produced by his firm, Jeonwonsa Movie Co.
Cinema Guild is a number one distributor of world cinema, impartial movies, and documentaries. Upcoming releases embody Hong Sangsoo’s “What Does That Nature Say to You” and Aleksandre Koberidze’s “Dry Leaf.”
The corporate lately rolled out a retrospective of João César Monteiro’s movies in 4k restorations, Marta Mateus’ “Fireplace of Wind,” Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s “The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire,” Hong Sangsoo’s “By the Stream” and a retrospective of the French New Wave filmmaker Luc Moullet.
The 76th Berlin Movie Pageant opened with the world premiere of Shahrbanoo Sadat’s “No Good Males” on Feb. 12 and can wrap on Feb. 22.
