LEE Kwang-kuk’s debut, Romance Joe(2011), received the Citizen Critics’ Award at the Busan International Film Festival and was invited to the Vancouver International Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2012. His next short film, Hard to Say(2012), competed for the Dragons and Tigers section at Vancouver in 2013. LEE returned to feature filmmaking with his sophomore work <A Matter of Interpretation> in 2014. One of the most warmly received Kore...More
LEE Kwang-kuk’s debut, Romance Joe(2011), received the Citizen Critics’ Award at the Busan International Film Festival and was invited to the Vancouver International Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2012. His next short film, Hard to Say(2012), competed for the Dragons and Tigers section at Vancouver in 2013. LEE returned to feature filmmaking with his sophomore work <A Matter of Interpretation> in 2014. One of the most warmly received Korean films at the Busan International Film Festival that year, the dream-infused comedy, starring YU Jun-sang and SHIN Dong-mi, picked up the Coup de coeur Inalco Award at the Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema in 2015. Less
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