Ongoing Smile

A cinematic love letter to one of the world's most renowned festival gurus

Ongoing Smile — Plot

At the age of 74, many people retire themselves or go and spend the rest of their life in elderly’s house. But Kim Dong-Ho has made the decision to live like a young and energetic man until the end of his life. He gets up early around 4 am every morning. He does his exercise for an hour. Then he checks the news and respond to his emails. After that, he takes the bus to his work. He is currently working in a university of film and media, which he has launched himself two years ago. KIM is the same man whom established the largest Asian Film Festival when he was almost 60 years old. Now that he is 74 years old, he has just decided to make his first film as a director.

• Release date
• September 23, 2013
• Runtime
• 52 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Ongoing Smile — Cast

Kim Dong-ho Self Ahn Sung-ki Self Juliette Binoche Self

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Roger Garcia Self Kang Soo-youn Self Kim Ki-duk Self Ye Ji-won Self