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Top Korean director PARK Chan-wook will journey to Morocco next week, where the Marrakesh International Film Festival will be a staging a tribute to the genre auteur during its 15th edition which kicks off on December 4th. PARK is one of three globally acclaimed filmmakers who will take part in a masterclass in North Africa, alongside the German director of Turkish origin Fatih Akin and the Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami.

 

PARK, who recently wrapped the period thriller The Handmaid, based on the novel Fingersmith by Sarah Waters and featuring actors HA Jung-woo and KIM Min-hee, is one of the biggest names of contemporary Korean cinema. Reaching prominence and garnering acclaim for his military border drama-thriller Joint Security Area /JSA in 2000, PARK then embarked on his most well-known films, the ‘Vengeance Trilogy’, which comprises Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Old Boy (2003), recipient of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004, and Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (2005). In 2013, PARK made his English-language debut, delivering the gothic thriller Stoker, featuring Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

 

As recently as 2013, the Korean indie HAN Gong-ju, from director LEE Su-jin, was awarded the top prize at Marrakech, from a jury presided over by legendary American cineaste Martin Scorsese. The 15th Marrakech International Film Festival, which has yet to reveal its entire program, will take place over December 4th to 12th.