Kim Do-yeon, I'm going to Cannes..'Dora' Invites Cannes Film Festival Director's Week 'Welcome'

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Weki Meki's Kim Do-yeon will be on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival.

Director Chung Ju-ri's third new feature film "Dora," which drew attention due to the meeting between Kim Do-yeon and Ando Sakura, was invited to the 79th Cannes Film Festival Director's Week.

On the 14th, the 79th Cannes Film Festival Director's Weekly Executive Committee announced director Chung Ju-ri's new film "Dora" as an invitation. Director Chung Ju-ri is building a unique world of works by being invited to the Cannes Film Festival, from his previous works "Doheeya" (noteworthy gaze) and "Next Sohee" (closing film of Criticism Week).

Julien Reggie, executive chairman of the Cannes Film Festival's Director's Week, said, "Jung Joo-ri's new film is a free and original film based on Freud's 'Dora' case in the early 20th century. Through a bold and original approach in the context of Korean films, director Chung Ju-ri explores the desires of a young woman and the passion and confusion expressed by it. I am very happy to present this third feature and highly complete work by director Chung Ju-ri in Director's Week."

The movie "Dora" is a detailed production of director Chung Ju-ri's characteristic of the process of two characters who are hurt in the body and mind being caught up in a complex whirlwind of emotions. Kim Do-yeon, who emerged as a rising star in the Korean film industry by winning the 46th Blue Dragon Film Award, and Ando Sakura, who won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actress for "One Hundred yen Love," "One Family," and "The Host," drew attention early on. It also adds meaning as an international co-production project with investment and production support from France, Luxembourg, and Japan, and raises expectations with the work selected for the mid-budget Korean film production support project of the Film Promotion Committee, which was established in 2025.

The Cannes Film Festival Director's Week is a non-competitive division established by the French Directors Association in 1969, and domestic directors such as Lee Chang-dong, director of "Pig Candy" (2000), Bong Joon-ho, director of "The Host" (2006), and Yeon Sang-ho, director of "The King of Pigs" (2012) were invited as well as world-class masters.

The 79th Cannes Film Festival Director's Week will be held from May 13-23, 2026, and "Dora" will be released as a world premiere through the section.

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