Bong Joon Ho will function the jury president of this yr’s Marrakech Movie Competition.
This yr’s occasion runs from November 28 to December 6. The jury awards the Étoile d’Or to one of many 14 first and second feature-length movies within the worldwide competitors.
“For a few years, Marrakech has been a champion of recent, lovely movies. I’m delighted and honored to be a part of that custom,” Bong stated in an announcement. “I stay up for sharing a robust cinematic expertise with the pageant viewers and reflecting on the true worth of ‘cinema.’ Our anticipation and pleasure will probably be palpable in entrance of the massive screens of Marrakech.”
Director Bong is coming off the discharge of his eighth function, Mickey 17. Tailored from Edward Ashton’s 2022 sci-fi novel of ‘Mickey 7’, Mickey 17 revolves round a directionless man residing in a close to future who indicators up for a job as an “expendable”, or disposable worker despatched on harmful missions who’s robotically regenerated if he perishes on the job. Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo star within the movie.
Bong’s different credit embrace Barking Canine By no means Chunk (2000), Reminiscences of Homicide (2003), The Host (2006), Mom (2009), Snowpiercer (2013), Okja (2017), and the history-making Parasite (2019).
In March, the Academy Museum of Movement Footage in Los Angeles opened the exhibition Director’s Inspiration: Bong Joon Ho. It’s the first-ever exhibition devoted to the Oscar-winning director and traces his inventive improvement by means of his movies and the movies that almost all influenced him. The exhibition will run till January 10th, 2027.
