Korean Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho fondly recalled his film student days as took up the baton of Jury President at the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival on Friday.

He was joined on stage at the opening night ceremony by jury members Celine Song, Anya Taylor-Joy , Jenna Ortega , Karim Aïnouz, Hakim Belabbes, Julia Ducournau, and Payman Maadi.

Over the course of the next eight days, they will judge 14 first and second features in the running for the festival’s Golden Star Award.

Joon Ho cast his mind back to his own filmmaker beginnings at the opening ceremony.

“22 years. What were you doing when you were 22-years-old? Or what are you planning to do when you turn 22?,” he said.

“At 22, I was greedily devouring movies as a student of cinema. I watched three, four films a day.

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