Parasite

This year's Palme d'Or winner and Opening Film at Films from the South is a must-see. It follows a working class family that, by sheer chance, gets the opportunity to improve on their own conditions after their son is hired as a tutor for a rich teenage girl. Soon, the rest of the family is invited to fill other positions in the rich family's home, with disastrous consequences. Parasite is a meticulously crafted, immersive and truly virtuoso cinematic achievement. Director Bong Joon-ho has set a new golden standard for depictions of class conflict on the silver screen.

Bong Joon-ho (b. 1969) is one of South Korea's most internationally renowned filmmakers, and extremely popular with the home crowd. His horror film The Host and the English language action-thriller Snowpiercer rank among the highest-grossing films at the Korean box office ever. Bong got his international breakthrough with Memories of Murder in 2003.