{"id":547833,"date":"2026-07-13T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/547833\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:00:08","slug":"hong-sangsoos-nowhere-to-lay-my-eyes-sells-to-cinema-guild-locarno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/547833\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Sangsoo’s ‘Nowhere to Lay My Eyes’ Sells to Cinema Guild: Locarno"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSouth Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo<\/a>\u2018s new film, Nowhere to Lay My Eyes, has sold to Cinema Guild for North American distribution ahead of its world premiere in the international<\/a> competition of the 79th edition<\/a> of the Locarno Film Festival<\/a> in Switzerland next month.<\/p>\n

\n\tNowhere to Lay My Eyes follows Sanghee (Kim Minhee) who, with her brother, visits her mother who settled down on Jeju Island. It\u2019s been 10 years since she saw her mother. \u201cHer stepfather, a documentarist, is making a film about a \u2018grass tomb,\u2019 while her mother\u2019s restaurant has become a hit and she\u2019s made a lot of money,\u201d reads a synopsis of the movie. \u201cShe also meets her stepfather\u2019s daughter, who has just started painting. Sanghee works for a snack import company, and in her spare time she makes very short films by herself. She spends two days with these people, as previously unknown facts, needless advice and cheap compliments are passed back and forth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his 35th feature, Hong continues \u201chis poetic expression through refined yet seemingly effortless craftsmanship,\u201d Cinema Guild said. The film follows Sanghee through awkward conversations and unexpected discoveries combining into a \u201cbittersweet reflection on the meaning, beauty, and complexity of life,\u201d the company said. <\/p>\n

\n\tNowhere to Lay My Eyes reunites Hong with longtime collaborators Kim Minhee, Kwon Haehyo, Shin Seokho, and Park Miso, while also featuring actor Choi Myeonggil for the first time in one of his films. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe can never run out of things to say about director Hong because he continues to surprise with each new release,\u201d said Cinema Guild president Peter Kelly. He called Nowhere to Lay My Eyes \u201ca wonderful film to behold with a captivating performance by Kim Minhee.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tThe acquisition deal was negotiated by Kelly of Cinema Guild with Youngjoo Suh of Finecut.<\/p>\n

\n\tCinema Guild, a distributor of world cinema, independent films, and documentaries, previously released Hong Sangsoo\u2019s The Day She Returns and What Does That Nature Say to You. Titles from Locarno 2025 that landed at Cinema Guild were Kamal Aljafari\u2019s With Hasan in Gaza<\/a> and Aleksandre Koberidze\u2019s Dry Leaf<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tLocarno 2026<\/a>, taking place Aug. 5-15, will also present new works from U.S. filmmakers Erin Vassilopoulos (Superior) and\u00a0Vincent Grashaw<\/a>\u00a0(Keep Quiet<\/a>), Senegal\u2019s Mamadou Dia (Demba<\/a>), and Canada\u2019s\u00a0Denis C\u00f4t\u00e9<\/a>\u00a0(Vic and Flo Saw a Bear) and\u00a0Wayne Wapeemukwa<\/a>\u00a0(Luk\u2019Luk\u2019I).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo\u2018s new film, Nowhere to Lay My Eyes, has sold to Cinema Guild for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[576,93,229841,61,1042,60,232172,3428,270],"class_list":["post-547833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-asia","tag-entertainment","tag-hong-sang-soo","tag-ie","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-locarno-2026","tag-locarno-film-festival","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}