Director Hong Sang-soo will be a judge at the Cannes International Film Festival in France, which is considered one of the world’s top three film festivals along with Berlin, Germany and Venice, Italy.

The 78th Cannes International Film Festival released a list of eight jurors, including director Hong, on its website on the 29th(Korean time).Director Hong Sang-soo will be judging the films in the competition section along with French actress Juliette Binoche, who was selected as the president of the jury, American actors Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong, Indian director Payal Kapadia, Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, French writer Leila Slimani, Congolese director Diwedo Amadi, and Mexican director Carlos Reygadas.

Director Hong is the sixth Korean director or actor to serve as a jury member in the Cannes Film Festival competition section.Previously, director Shin Sang-ok(1994), director Lee Chang-dong(2009), actress Jeon Do-yeon(2014), director Park Chan-wook(2017), and actor Song Kang-ho(2021)served as jurors.

The Cannes Film Festival introduced Director Hong as “a prolific director with international award-winning works who is familiar with the Cannes Film Festival,” adding, “He is constantly evolving while maintaining a sophisticated and intimate cinematic style.”

The film festival introduced director Hong as a filmmaker familiar with Cannes, and paid attention to his previous works that were invited in the past, including his film “Claire’s Camera,” which was set in Cannes, and “Woman is the Future of Man,” “The Battle of the Theater,” “In Another Country,” and “After That,” which were advanced to the competition section.

At this year’s Cannes International Film Festival, which will be held from the 13th to the 24th of next month, director Jung Yu-mi’s animation “Glasses” was invited to the independent section of the Critics ‘Week Short Film Competition, and director Heo Ga-young’s “First Summer” from the Korean Academy of Film Arts(KAFA)was invited to the student film section(Cinefondation).Not a single Korean feature film was invited to the competition or even the non-competition section.


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