South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook has been named as president of the jury for the 79th Cannes Film Festival, which will run from 12-23 May.
The director of Oldboy, Stoker, The Handmaiden and No Other Choice is the first Korean, and the third Asian Cannes jury president, after Japan’s Tetsurō Furukaki in 1962 and Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai in 2006.
