Korean sales house Finecut has closed a string of international deals for three festival titles, including Hong Sangsoo‘s Locarno prizewinner “Nowhere to Lay My Eyes,” ahead of the Toronto Film Festival.
\n\nThe film marks Hong’s 35th feature. It competed in the Concorso Internazionale at the 79th Locarno Film Festival and picked up three awards: the Pardo for Best Direction, the Pardo for Best Performance and the Ecumenical Jury Prize.
\n\nFinecut has sold the film to North America (the Cinema Guild), the U.K. (Institute of Contemporary Arts), Spain (Atalante), China (Hugoeast), Austria (Filmgarten) and Taiwan (Cola Films). The story follows a woman who, after 10 years apart, visits her mother together with her brother and spends two days with her mother’s new family.
\n\nAlso among the deals is “Long Long Night,” a 3D animated feature marking the directorial debut of Youm Kyu Bock. The film has been pre-sold to Japan’s Geek Pictures Inc. ahead of its world premiere at Toronto, where it screens in the Centrepiece selection. From there, it moves on to the Busan International Film Festival‘s competition lineup, then to the Sitges Film Festival, where it competes in the Anima’t section.
\n\nThe film adapts a bestselling Korean novel based…
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