``Night and Day,'' the latest work of movie director Hong Sang-soo, has been selected to screen at the 58th Berlinale International Film Festival of Berlin, Germany, Feb. 7-17.
The complete list for the Competition program of the 58th Berlinale was announced Friday.
Hong's ``Night and Day'' is the story about a painter who has fled to Paris. Kim Young-ho plays the runaway artist while Park Eun-hye plays an art student studying in France. Hwang Soo-jung plays the wife of Kim and Lee Sun-kyun, a student from North Korea.
The director debuted in 1996 with the movie ``The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well.'' Another Hong movie, ``Woman on the Beach,'' starring actress Ko Hyun-joung, was nominated for the Panorama section last year. He also made it to the Cannes Film Festival with ``Woman Is the Future of Man'' (2004) and ``Tale of Cinema'' (2005).
``Night and Day'' will compete for the Golden and the Silver Bear Awards along with movies such as: ``Elegy'' by Isabel Coixet (USA); ``I've Loved You So Long'' by Philippe Claudel (France/Germany); ``Black Ice'' by Petri Kotwica (Finland/Germany) and ``Happy-Go-Lucky'' by Mike Leigh (UK).
Other Asian films in the competition program include ``Our Mother'' by Yoji Yamada (Japan), ``Sparrow'' by Johnnie To (Hong Kong, China) and ``The Song of Sparrows'' by Majid Majidi (Iran).
A film of Korean-American director Dennis Lee, ``Fireflies in the Garden,'' featuring top actors such as Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds and Willem Dafoe, will premiere at the Berlinale as well.
The opening film of the festival is ``Shine a Light,'' the Rolling Stones documentary by Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese To round off Michel Gondry's ``Be Kind Rewind'' will be screened.
Another Korean movie ``Beautiful,'' directed by Juhn Jai-hong and starring Cha Soo-yeon and Lee Chun-hee, is included in the Panorama section.
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