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Hong Sang-soo’s ‘By the Stream’ Picked Up by Korea’s Finecut Ahead of Locarno Premiere
Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo’s Locarno-bound ‘By the Stream’ is picked up for sales by Finecut.
“By the Stream” (aka “Suyoocheon”), the latest work by prolific South Korean minimalist director Hong Sang-soo, has been picked up for international sales by Finecut. No synopsis has been made available by Finecut or Hong’s production firm Jeonwonsa Film, but a press kit made available by the Locarno Film Festival describes the story as turning on a lecturer at a woman’s university who asks her uncle, a blacklisted actor-director, to direct a skit at the university. That followed three successive years in which Hong has appeared in Berlin’s main competition, with: “The Woman Who Ran,” which earned Berlin’s Silver Bear for best director; 2021 title “Introduction” which won another Silver Bear, for best screenplay, at that year’s delayed festival; and “The Novelist’s Film” which won a Grand Jury Prize in 2022.
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