(LEAD) Director Hong Sang-soo, actor Kim Min-hee win awards at Locarno Film Festival
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Yonhap) -- Director Hong Sang-soo and actor Kim Min-hee have cli...
Director Hong Sang-soo and actress Kim Min-hee dominated the Locarno Film Festival with two prestigious awards for their latest collaboration, Nowhere to Lay My Eyes. Hong was honored with the Best Director accolade, while Kim claimed the Best Performance prize alongside Italian actress Monica Bellucci. The film, Hong's 35th feature, tells the story of Sang-hee, played by Kim Min-hee, who travels to the southern Korean island of Jeju to locate her divorced mother, last seen 10 years prior.
This marks Hong's fifth entry into the Locarno Film Festival, where he has previously won the Best Director award for Our Sunhi (2013) and the Golden Leopard prize for Right Now, Wrong Then (2015). Kim previously secured the Best Performance award for her role in Hong's 2024 film By the Stream.
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