South Korean director Park Chan-wook has been named president of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival jury, Cannes organizers announced on Thursday morning in Paris.
Park Chan-wook is one of the foremost Korean directors of this century, with his films including “No Other Choice,” “The Handmaiden,” “Decision to Leave” and the “vengeance trilogy” of “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance,” Oldboy” and “Lady Vengeance.”
Park will be Cannes’ first Korean jury president, and the first Asian filmmaker to head the panel since Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai in 2006. The only Korean film to win the Palme d’Or was Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” in 2019, though Park has won the Grand Prix for “Oldboy…
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