{"id":2287769,"date":"2026-02-18T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2287769"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:53:12","slug":"hong-sangsoos-berlinale-film-the-day-she-returns-lands-north-american-deal-with-cinema-guild-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/hong-sangsoos-berlinale-film-the-day-she-returns-lands-north-american-deal-with-cinema-guild-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Sangsoo\u2019s Berlinale Film \u2018The Day She Returns\u2019 Lands North American Deal With Cinema Guild (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0200052\/\">Cinema Guild<\/a> has picked up North American distribution rights for \u201cThe Day She Returns,\u201d the latest feature from acclaimed South Korean auteur <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0393254\/\">Hong Sangsoo<\/a>. The film world premieres today at the 76th Berlin Film Festival, marking <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5727189\/\">Hong<\/a>\u2019s seventh consecutive year with a film at the Berlinale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Day She Returns\u201d stars <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1022228\/\">Song Sunmi<\/a> as an actress who stepped back from acting after marriage and a subsequent divorce, and makes a comeback with a role in an independent film.<\/p>\n<p>Sunmi stars opposite longtime collaborators <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9066896\/\">Cho Yunhee<\/a> (\u201cThe Day After\u201d) and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm12358906\/\">Park Miso<\/a> (\u201cIntroduction\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe magic of Hong Sangsoo is endless,\u201d said Cinema Guild president <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8548085\/\">Peter Kelly<\/a>, who negotiated the deal with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0230549\/\">Finecut<\/a>\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2446178\/\">Youngjoo Suh<\/a>. \u201cWatching \u2018The Day She Returns\u2019 was like discovering that magic all over again,\u201d he continued. A prolific filmmaker, Hong Sangsoo has written and directed 34 feature films and several shorts since 1996. \u201cThe Day She Returns\u201d was produced by his company,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cinema Guild has picked up North American distribution rights for \u201cThe Day She Returns,\u201d the latest feature from acclaimed South Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo. The film world premieres today at the 76th Berlin Film Festival, marking Hong\u2019s seventh consecutive year with a film at the Berlinale. \u201cThe Day She Returns\u201d stars Song Sunmi as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2287770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2287769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Hong-Sangsoos-Berlinale-Film-\u2018The-Day-She-Returns-Lands-North.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2287769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287771,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287769\/revisions\/2287771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2287770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}