Lee Hong-chi has starred in over ten critically and commercially successful films, including Long Day's Journey Into Night (2018), which was invited to Cannes; Cities of Last Things (2018), winner of the Platform Prize at Toronto; and Thanatos, Drunk (2015), recipient of the Teddy Award at Berlin. With his directorial debut Love is a Gun (2023), he earned international acclaim as a visionary filmmaker with a singular cinematic voice, receiving the Lion of the Future award at the Venice Film Festival 2023. Returning to Venice in 2025, he served on the Venice International Critics' Week jury while premiering his sophomore feature, A Dance in Vain, for which he also worked as cinematographer.
From Busan International Film Festival 2025, No. 30
