South Korea’s Finecut has landed multiple sales of What Does That Nature Say To You by auteur Hong Sangsoo, who serves on the competition jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Deals have been closed for the UK (Institute of Contemporary Arts for theatrical rights), Austria and Switzerland (Filmgarten), China (Beijing Hugoeast Media for non-theatrical rights), ex-Yugoslavia (Discovery d.o.o.), Finland (BKS Cinema) and Japan (Mimosa Films). It previously sold to the US, France, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Spain and Taiwan.
The story centres on a young poet who drops off his girlfriend at her parents’ impressive home and bumps into her family, leading to a day together fuelled by conversation, food and drink.
The cast is led by Ha Seongguk, Kwon Haehyo and Cho Yunhee, who have all featured in Hong’s recent features including Berlin Silver Bear winner A Traveler’s Needs and By The Stream.
Produced by Jeonwonsa Film, it marks Hong’s 33rd film and was his eight to compete for Berlin’s Golden Bear earlier this year.
The feature ranked joint third in Screen’s Berlin jury grid of international critics.
Finecut has also secured deals for Noise, the feature directorial debut of South Korea’s Kim Soo-jin, starring Lee Sun-bin as a deaf woman trying to find her younger sister who has vanished in their apartment building plagued by mysterious sounds and a malevolent presence.
The film has been acquired for the Philippines (Pioneer Film) and Mongolia (Izagur Media LLC), following prior sales to the likes of France, Latin America and Japan among other Asian territories.
The film is scheduled for a wide release in Korea in early summer 2025.
At this year’s Cannes market, Finecut will give a market premiere screening to recent pick-up Journey There starring US actor Justin H Min and will show the first 30 minutes of Park Hoon-jung’s upcoming action noir Tristes Tropiques and action-comedy Boss from Hive Media Corp.
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