The award-winning Korean director Park Chan-wook will preside over the jury of the 79th Cannes Film Festival in May, the organisers have announced.
Park, the first Korean filmmaker to lead the jury, is known for films including Thirst (2009), The Handmaiden (2016), and No Other Choice (2025).
He won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2004 for Old Boy and took the festival's Best Director award in 2022 for Decision to Leave.
Cannes described Park as a director "often compared to filmmakers such as Tarantino, De Palma, and Fincher for artistry in composing images whose formal beauty is matched only by their moral rigour", noting that he cites Kurosawa, Bergman, Visconti, and Hitchcock as influences.
"To be enclosed in a theatre to watch films, and enclosed again to engage in debate with the members of the jury, this double, voluntary confinement is something I await with great anticipation," Park said.
The 79th Cannes Film Festival runs from 12 to 23 May.
Source: Reuters
