In On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
, a playful and profound meditation on love, fate, and how we try to make sense of reality’s essential ambiguity, an actor must choose between the love of a young dance instructor and that of a married woman who swears she knows him from somewhere. Yourself and Yours is a break-up/make-up comedy unlike any other, suffused with sophisticated modernist mystery.

Alternately funny and haunting, Hill of Freedom is a series of disordered scenes based on undated letters received by a woman from her Japanese lover, and her subsequent attempts to make sense of their chronology. Shot in moody black and white, The Day After tracks a roundelay of mistaken identity and déjà vu, as a book publisher fends off his wife’s accusations of infidelity and his new assistant starts her first day on the job.

All we’ll say for now is that the film will be revealed during the screening’s introduction. Just trust us on this one.

Claire’s Camera is a light, sunny divertissement shot on the fly during the Cannes Film Festival, starring Isabelle Huppert as a French tourist who enters into an unexpected friendship with a Korean sales agent. In Night and Day, a successful painter facing pot possession charges flees his sleepy Korean home for the streets of Paris in Hong’s ambling portrait of midlife male discombobulation.

Film Comment editors Clinton Krute and Devika Girish will host a special conversation with Film at Lincoln Center Director of Programming Dennis Lim about the playful, profound, and soju-soaked filmography of one of world cinema’s most influential and ingenious artists.

Tale of Cinema is composed of two halves: in the first, a young man encounters a woman he used to know, and the two spend an existentially fraught evening together; in the second, a slightly older man seemingly has an extremely similar experience, with some crucial differences. In On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate
, a playful and profound meditation on love, fate, and how we try to make sense of reality’s essential ambiguity, an actor must choose between the love of a young dance instructor and that of a married woman who swears she knows him from somewhere.

Hong’s acclaimed feature debut, The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well, begins as a study of an affair between a temperamental writer and a married woman, and gradually zooms outward to reveal its tragic ripple effects on the lives of a germaphobic businessman and a young movie-theater ticket-taker. In Grass, a young woman sitting in a cafe eavesdrops on three dramatic situations in this rawly emotional and formally elegant chamber piece.

The Woman Who Ran is a comic triptych of thwarted connections and everyday dysfunction, a peripatetic woman visits a succession of friends: two on purpose, one by chance. Woman is the Future of Man follows two friends’ attempted trip down memory lane turns sour in this volatile melodrama, a key work in the development of Hong’s approach to examining relations between men and women.

In Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, a chamber piece at once eloquently simple and deceptively complex, a young film student finds herself at loose ends when her mother moves to Canada. In In Front of Your Face, a middle-aged former actress has returned to South Korea to reconnect with her past and perhaps make amends in Hong’s beguiling and oddly cleansing mix of the spiritual and the cynical.

Alternately funny and haunting, Hill of Freedom is a series of disordered scenes based on undated letters received by a woman from her Japanese lover, and her subsequent attempts to make sense of their chronology. List follows a woman (Minari Oscar-winner Youn Yuh-jung) and her daughter decamp for the coastal town of Mohang. In Grass, a young woman sitting in a cafe eavesdrops on three dramatic situations in this rawly emotional and formally elegant chamber piece.

Join Dennis Lim and director Hong Sangsoo for an expansive discussion covering the entirety of Hong’s singular career to date and his richly intricate and always surprising filmography.

In Night and Day, a successful painter facing pot possession charges flees his sleepy Korean home for the streets of Paris in Hong’s ambling portrait of midlife male discombobulation. On the Beach at Night Alone follows an actress (Kim Minhee) who is hiding out in Hamburg after the revelation of her affair with a married filmmaker; she later returns to Korea, slipping in and out of melancholic reflection and dreams all along the way.

Hong’s acclaimed feature debut, The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well, begins as a study of an affair between a temperamental writer and a married woman, and gradually zooms outward to reveal its tragic ripple effects on the lives of a germaphobic businessman and a young movie-theater ticket-taker. In In Front of Your Face, a middle-aged former actress has returned to South Korea to reconnect with her past and perhaps make amends in Hong’s beguiling and oddly cleansing mix of the spiritual and the cynical.

Oki’s Movie follows the adventures of a talented young director, his middle-aged cinema instructor, and the woman who loves them both. In Another Country stars Isabelle Huppert as three different women who each visit a Korean seaside resort town.

The Day He Arrives follows a filmmaker-turned-professor who arrives in Seoul to meet an old friend, only for that friend to seemingly stand him up. The Day After tracks a roundelay of mistaken identity and déjà vu, as a book publisher fends off his wife’s accusations of infidelity and his new assistant starts her first day on the job.

In Another Country stars Isabelle Huppert as three different women who each visit a Korean seaside resort town. Our Sunhi follows a former film student and the three men from her alma mater who find themselves beguiled by her. List follows a woman (Minari Oscar-winner Youn Yuh-jung) and her daughter decamp for the coastal town of Mohang.

Hong followed his acclaimed debut with The Power of Kangwon Province, an understated diptych concerning a popular retreat in Kangwon, a mountainous region near Seoul. In Right Now, Wrong Then, Hong achieves a maximum of layered nuance with a minimum of people, places, and incidents in a tale of an art-film director and a drunken night he shares with a fledgling artist.

Hahaha follows two friends comparing notes on their separate trips to the same resort town. A breezy yet complexly structured study of a group of characters trying to relate to one another via a series of thwarted or stunted meetings and introductions, Introduction is a film that keeps opening up to the viewer through digressions and reversals.

The Day He Arrives follows a filmmaker-turned-professor who arrives in Seoul to meet an old friend, only for that friend to seemingly stand him up. Yourself and Yours is a break-up/make-up comedy unlike any other, suffused with sophisticated modernist mystery.

Hong followed his acclaimed debut with The Power of Kangwon Province, an understated diptych concerning a popular retreat in Kangwon, a mountainous region near Seoul. Hahaha follows two friends comparing notes on their separate trips to the same resort town.

Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors is an ambitious, early experiment in bifurcation and repetition, and chronicles a psychodramatic love triangle between a filmmaker, a gallerist, and a television writer. Something like a dose of mortification and misadventure, the surprising and moving Like You Know It All follows a hapless movie director invited to serve on a film-festival jury.

Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors is an ambitious, early experiment in bifurcation and repetition, and chronicles a psychodramatic love triangle between a filmmaker, a gallerist, and a television writer. In Right Now, Wrong Then, Hong achieves a maximum of layered nuance with a minimum of people, places, and incidents in a tale of an art-film director and a drunken night he shares with a fledgling artist.

In Hotel by the RIver, two tales intersect at a riverside hotel: an elderly poet, invited to stay there for free by the owner and sensing his life drawing to a close, summons his two estranged sons; and a young woman nursing a recently broken heart is visited by a friend who tries to console her. A breezy yet complexly structured study of a group of characters trying to relate to one another via a series of thwarted or stunted meetings and introductions, Introduction is a film that keeps opening up to the viewer through digressions and reversals.

Something like a dose of mortification and misadventure, the surprising and moving Like You Know It All follows a hapless movie director invited to serve on a film-festival jury. On the Beach at Night Alone follows an actress who is hiding out in Hamburg after the revelation of her affair with a married filmmaker; she later returns to Korea, slipping in and out of melancholic reflection and dreams all along the way.

Our Sunhi follows a former film student and the three men from her alma mater who find themselves beguiled by her. Lost in the Mountains follows a young writer drives from Seoul to Jeonju to visit her best friend, but winds up getting entangled with a former professor and an ex-boyfriend, resulting in a journey of mortification and self-discovery. The Woman Who Ran is a comic triptych of thwarted connections and everyday dysfunction, a peripatetic woman visits a succession of friends: two on purpose, one by chance.

Oki’s Movie follows the adventures of a talented young director, his middle-aged cinema instructor, and the woman who loves them both. Tale of Cinema is composed of two halves: in the first, a young man encounters a woman he used to know, and the two spend an existentially fraught evening together; in the second, a slightly older man seemingly has an extremely similar experience, with some crucial differences.

Alternately funny and haunting, Hill of Freedom is a series of disordered scenes based on undated letters received by a woman from her Japanese lover, and her subsequent attempts to make sense of their chronology. Shot in moody black and white, The Day After tracks a roundelay of mistaken identity and déjà vu, as a book publisher fends off his wife’s accusations of infidelity and his new assistant starts her first day on the job.

Claire’s Camera is a light, sunny divertissement shot on the fly during the Cannes Film Festival, starring Isabelle Huppert as a French tourist who enters into an unexpected friendship with a Korean sales agent. Lost in the Mountains follows a young writer drives from Seoul to Jeonju to visit her best friend, but winds up getting entangled with a former professor and an ex-boyfriend, resulting in a journey of mortification and self-discovery. In Hotel by the RIver, two tales intersect at a riverside hotel: an elderly poet, invited to stay there for free by the owner and sensing his life drawing to a close, summons his two estranged sons; and a young woman nursing a recently broken heart is visited by a friend who tries to console her.

Woman is the Future of Man follows two friends’ attempted trip down memory lane turns sour in this volatile melodrama, a key work in the development of Hong’s approach to examining relations between men and women. In Woman on the Beach, a creatively blocked filmmaker convinces his friend to join him on a brief holiday to finish a script, he begins an affair with the friend’s girlfriend, only for the tale to be inverted in the film’s second half.

In Woman on the Beach, a creatively blocked filmmaker convinces his friend to join him on a brief holiday to finish a script, he begins an affair with the friend’s girlfriend, only for the tale to be inverted in the film’s second half. In Nobody’s Daughter Haewon, a chamber piece at once eloquently simple and deceptively complex, a young film student finds herself at loose ends when her mother moves to Canada.