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\n\tSouth Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong will receive the lifetime achievement award at this year\u2019s Malaysia International Film Festival, the Kuala Lumpur event announced this week as it unveiled the program for its ninth edition, running July 18-25.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAnnouncing the honor, MIFFest president Joanne Goh called Lee \u201ca filmmaker whose work continues to resonate across cultures and generations through its honesty, compassion, and profound understanding of humanity,\u201d adding that his films \u201cremind us of cinema\u2019s unique ability to inspire empathy, provoke reflection, and connect us through shared human experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Malaysian festival will feature a special tribute to Lee, including screenings of two of his early landmarks, Peppermint Candy<\/em> (1998) and Oasis<\/em> (2002).<\/p>\n

\n\tA revered figure across Asian cinema and a fixture of the major European festivals, Lee has built a reputation \u2014 across just six features over three decades \u2014 as something of an auteur\u2019s auteur, more treasured by critics and cinephiles than at the box office. His films probe grief, social alienation and moral ambiguity with a spare, literary intensity that reflects his early career as a fiction writer. His path to film came notably late. A former high school teacher, he first made his name as a novelist in the 1980s, writing fiction steeped in the pathos and political tumult of South Korea\u2019s military-dictatorship years, and didn\u2019t direct a feature until he was past 40. In a more improbable detour, he stepped away from cinema in the early 2000s to serve as South Korea\u2019s minister of culture and tourism, a cabinet post he held in 2003-04 under President Roh Moo-hyun.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut each new Lee Chang-dong film has landed like an event on the festival circuit. Oasis<\/em> (2002) won him a best director prize at Venice; Secret Sunshine<\/em> (2007) took the best actress award at Cannes for its star, Jeon Do-yeon; Poetry<\/em> (2010) won the Cannes screenplay prize; and Burning<\/em> (2018), his haunting Haruki Murakami adaptation, claimed the festival\u2019s international critics\u2019 prize and became the first Korean film shortlisted for the foreign-language Oscar.<\/p>\n

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\n\tLee\u2019s literary profile has also been on the rise in the West of late: Snowy Day and Other Stories<\/em>, the first English-language collection of his fiction, was published by Penguin Press in February 2025. And he is at last nearing a return to the screen with Possible Love<\/em> (working title), now in post-production. Backed by Netflix, the drama is widely tipped as a contender for this fall\u2019s Venice Film Festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThemed \u201cResonance,\u201d this year\u2019s MIFFest will screen 65 films from 35 countries. It opens with the world premiere of Malaysian director Ariff Zulkarnain\u2019s BAGA: Tomorrow Belongs to No One<\/em> and closes with Yellow Letters<\/em>, \u0130lker \u00c7atak\u2019s Berlinale Golden Bear winner. Chinese action star and filmmaker Wu Jing will collect a separate Excellent Achievement in Film Award, accompanied by a screening of his wuxia epic Blades of the Guardians: Wind Rises in the Desert<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe festival\u2019s competition, the Malaysia Golden Global Awards, features 10 films by emerging directors \u2014 among them Taiwanese star Shu Qi\u2019s directorial debut Girl<\/em> \u2014 judged by a panel headed by Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap. Sidebars range from a Hong Kong showcase to debut strands on Korean and Russian cinema, plus an A-Lister section with the latest work from Takashi Miike and Spain\u2019s Oliver Laxe.<\/p>\n

\n\tMIFFest runs July 18-25 in Kuala Lumpur, with the Golden Global Awards handed out on closing night.<\/p>\n

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