Lee Chang-dong on His Eight-Year Gap Before Venice-Bound ‘Possible Love’ and MIFFest Lifetime Achievement Honor: ‘Thanks to Cinema, I Feel Connected to Something Much Bigger’

Eight years after “Burning,” Lee Chang-dong is preparing to return with Venice competition title “Possible Love,” but the acclaimed Korean filmmaker says the long gap was never about stepping away from cinema.

Speaking with Variety at the Malaysia International Film Festival (MIFFest), where he received a Lifetime Achievement Award, Lee says the years since “Burning” […] ...