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 the International Film Festival Rotterdam. 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 the 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 the Locarno Film Festival, “Yourself and Yours” (2016), best direction at the 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 the Berlinale, “Introduction” (2021), prize of best screenplay at the same film festival, and “The Novelist`s Film” (2022), winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.