South Korean film director Hong Sang-soo holds his "Concha de Plata" (Silver Shell) award to the best director for his film "Yourself and Yours" during the 64th San Sebastian International Film Festival closing ceremony in San Sebastian on Saturday. (AFP-Yonhap)

Korean film director Hong Sang-soo has taken home the Silver Shell award for best directing for his new film “Yourself and Yours” at this year’s 64th annual San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain, which ran from Sept. 16 to 24.

Best known for his films “Hahaha” and “Right Now, Wrong Then,” Hong’s latest feature film stars actors Kim Joo-hyuck and Lee You-young in a movie that chronicles one man’s desperate search for his girlfriend, who had gone missing after a serious spat between the two.

The win marks the 54-year-old director’s first win at the San Sebastian Film Fest. The event’s Golden Shell top prize winner went to the Chinese film “I Am Not Madame Bovary,” by Xiaogang Feng.

“Yourself and Yours” was invited to three major international film festivals, including the 41st Toronto International Film Festival, which concluded earlier this month, where it was one of 24 global productions highlighted at the festival’s Masters Program.

The film will soon head off to compete at the 54th New York Film Festival, which is scheduled to kick off Friday. Hong’s film is slated to compete in the competition’s Main Slate category, where the director’s “Right Now, Wrong Then” award-winning film was screened last year.

“Yourself and Yours” is scheduled to open in local theaters sometime in November.

By Julie Jackson (juliejackson@heraldcorp.com)