Hong Sang-soo began his career in 1996 with a debut feature, The Day a Pig Fell into the Well. Each of the 23 films that he has since written and directed is characterised by a complex and perfectly organised structure, even though everything in it seem to happen randomly following the impromptu events that his characters encounter. In 2011, the Cinémathèque Française devoted a first retrospective to him. In 2014, he won the Montgolfière d’Or for Hill of Freedom. In 2015, he was awarded the Léopard d’Or at Locarno Festival for Right Now; Wrong Then. In 2016, he won the “Grand Prix d’honneur” at the FIDMarseille festival.
HONG Sang-soo
Director, Screenwriter
![HONG Sang-soo](https://www.3continents.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbs/individu/h/hong-sang-soo-161x215.jpg)
Films programmed at the festival
![Grass](https://www.3continents.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbs/micro/g/grass2-161x85.jpg)
Grass
(Grass)
(Grass)
by Sang-soo HONG
![Hill Of Freedom](https://www.3continents.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbs/micro/h/hill-of-freedom-161x85.jpg)
Hill Of Freedom
(Jayueui onduk)
(Jayueui onduk)
by Sang-soo HONG
![In Front of Your Face](https://www.3continents.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbs/micro/i/infrontofyourface_04-scaled-1-161x84.jpg)
In Front of Your Face
(Dangsin-eolgul-apeseo)
(Dangsin-eolgul-apeseo)
by Sang-soo HONG
![The Novelist's Film](https://www.3continents.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbs/micro/l/laromanciereweb-161x85.jpg)
The Novelist's Film
(So-seol-ga-ui yeong-hwa)
(So-seol-ga-ui yeong-hwa)
by Sang-soo HONG
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors
(Oh! Soo-jung)
(Oh! Soo-jung)
by Sang-soo HONG
![The Day a Pig Fell into the Well](https://www.3continents.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbs/micro/l/le-jour-ou-le-cochon-161x85.jpg)
The Day a Pig Fell into the Well
(Daijiga umule pajinnal)
(Daijiga umule pajinnal)
by Sang-soo HONG
![The Day he Arrives](https://www.3continents.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbs/micro/w/web-hong-sangsoo-the-day-he-arrives-161x85.jpg)
The Day he Arrives
(Book chon bang hyang)
(Book chon bang hyang)
by Sang-soo HONG
![Our Sunhi](https://www.3continents.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbs/micro/o/our-sunhi-h-2013-jpg-0-161x85.jpg)
Our Sunhi
(U ri Sunhi)
(U ri Sunhi)
by Sang-soo HONG
![Right Now, Wrong Then](https://www.3continents.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbs/micro/r/right-now-wrong-then-2-161x85.jpg)
Right Now, Wrong Then
(Ji-geum-eun-mat-go-geu-ddae-neun-teul-li-da)
(Ji-geum-eun-mat-go-geu-ddae-neun-teul-li-da)
by Sang-soo HONG
![On the Beach at Night Alone](https://www.3continents.com/wp-content/uploads/thumbs/micro/b/berlinale-on-the-beach-at-night-alone-54892-161x85.jpg)
On the Beach at Night Alone
(Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja)
(Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja)
by Sang-soo HONG