Kim Min-hee Wins Finest Actress at Locarno Worldwide Movie Competition for ‘Su Yu-cheon’: Highlights and Awards of 2024

Actress Kim Min-hee (42, photograph) gained the award for finest actress on the Locarno Worldwide Movie Competition for her position in director Hong Sang-soo’s new movie “Su Yu-cheon”.

Kim Min-hee, who was named one of many winners of the Finest Actor Award within the Worldwide Competitors class on the 77th Locarno Worldwide Movie Competition held on the seventeenth (native time), stated, “Director Hong Sang-soo, who made a lovely movie, I actually like your movie. “Thanks for permitting us to work collectively,” she stated. After receiving the award, a photograph of Kim Min-hee holding director Hong’s hand was additionally revealed. Since final yr, the Locarno Movie Competition has modified the Finest Actor and Finest Actress awards to gender-neutral awards and awarded the Finest Actor award to 2 actors.

Locarno Worldwide Movie Competition YouTube One other award of the day for finest appearing was given to 4 actors who appeared within the Lithuanian-Latvian co-production ‘Dry Drowning’. The Golden Leopard, the highest award within the worldwide competitors class, was gained by Lithuanian director Saule Bliuvite’s debut movie ‘Poisonous’.

The Locarno Worldwide Movie Competition, held each August in Locarno, a resort city in southern Switzerland, is likely one of the world’s six largest movie festivals and primarily showcases inventive and experimental auteur movies. Director Hong gained the Golden Leopard within the worldwide competitors part of this movie competition for “Proper Now, Incorrect Then” (2015) and in 2013 he acquired the Finest Director Award for the movie “Our Sunhee” (2013). Actors Ki Joo-bong and Jeong Jae-young have gained Finest Actor awards prior to now.

Journalist Kim Ki-yoon pep@donga.com