Hong Sang Soo‘s new film By the Stream is set to premiere in North American theaters next year.
Variety reported on August 5 that Cinema Guild has acquired the rights to the film. The company previously distributed Hong Sang Soo’s 2015 film Right Now, Wrong Then and his 2012 film In Another Country.
By the Stream tells the story of a university lecturer who asks her uncle to direct a play for her department. The synopsis provided by Cinema Guild is as follows: In the wake of a scandal involving several of her students, Jeonim (played by Kim Min Hee), an artist and lecturer at a women’s university, asks her uncle, Chu Sieon (Kwon Hae Hyo), to step in and direct a short play for the skit festival put on by her department. Her uncle is an actor-director who has recently been blacklisted after a scandal of his own. He decides to direct the short play because of a similar experience directing a play at the same university 40 years earlier. It doesn’t take long before Sieon develops feelings for Jeonim’s colleague, Professor Jeong (Jo Yoon Hee), a textile professor. Meanwhile, the circumstances surrounding the scandal grow more complicated, the moon waxes in the sky each night, and every morning, Jeonim goes to the stream and sketches to grasp its patterns.
By the Stream will have its world premiere at the Locarno International Film Festival and will also be screened at the New York Film Festival. This is Hong Sang Soo’s 32nd film and his third film set in a university setting, following Oki’s Movie (2010) and Our Sunhi (2013).
The Locarno Film Festival, founded in 1946, is one of the world’s six major film festivals. With this invitation, By the Stream becomes the fourth Hong Sang Soo film to be officially invited to the Locarno Film Festival, following Our Sunhi, Right Now, Wrong Then, and Hotel by the River.
By the Stream stars Kim Min Hee, Kwon Hae Hyo, and Jo Yoon Hee, all of whom have appeared in previous Hong Sang Soo films. With this film, the number of collaborations between Hong Sang Soo and Kim Min Hee has increased to 15.
By the Stream will have its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival and is scheduled for a South Korean release later this year.
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