Born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1960. In 1996, he released his first feature film, The Day a Pig Fell into the Well, winner of the Tiger award at Rotterdam Film Festival. He also made films like: Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000), Woman Is the Future of Man (2004), Tale of Cinema (2005, 38th Mostra), Hahaha (2010), winner of the Un Certain Regard award at Cannes Film Festival, The Day He Arrives (2011, 35th Mostra), In Another Country (2012), Nobody’s Daughter Haewon (2013), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival, Yourself and Yours (2016), best direction at San Sebastián Film Festival. Mostra has also presented The Day After (2017), Grass and Hotel by the River, both from 2018; The Woman Who Ran (2020), for which one he won best director award at Berlinale, and Introduction (2021), prize of best screenplay at the same film festival.
