Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho will be a guest at the 21st edition of the Florence Korea Film Fest

Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho will be a guest at the 21st edition of the Florence Korea Film Fest

The award-winning director Bong Joon Ho 2020 Oscar winner for Parasiteswas added to the visitors of the 21st Florence Korea Film Fest which will be held in Florence from March 30 to April 7.

Bong Joon Ho he returns to Florence – where he was already a guest of the festival in 2011, when he was awarded the festival prize and honored with a retrospective of his films – for an exclusive masterclass on his cinema and his multifaceted artistic career entitled “Geometry of the gaze”, which will be held on Thursday, April 6, at 3 pm at the La Compagnia cinema.

We remember his blockbuster works The host (2006), among the most watched films in South Korea; Memoirs of a Murderer – Memories of Murder (2003) Mother (2009), Snowpiercer (2013), to the worldwide success of ParasitesOscar-winning movie in 2020.

Bong Joon Ho
Director Bong Joon-ho

We are happy – explained Richard GelliFestival director – to once again host Bong Joon-ho in Florence, one of the most popular directors on the film scene not only in South Korea, but – after his success at the Oscars – worldwide. In his varied artistic career, the director represents the explosion of new Korean cinema, an ever-evolving market”.

The Oscar-winning director is joined by announced guests such as the actor Park Hae-ilin theaters during this period with the film Decision to leave by Park Chan-wook, and the female directors Yim Soon-rye And Jung Joo-ri (July Jung), as well as the directors Kim Han-min And Choi Kook-heewhich make up the parterre of stars present in Florence for this edition.

Source: Press Release

Source: Red Capes

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