South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook's new thriller has been invited to the competition section of this year's Cannes Film Festival.
 
The festival's organizing committee on Thursday announced the lineup, both competition and out-of-competition titles, to be shown at the 69th edition of the festival opening in May. 
 
Films invited to the feature length competition section including Park Chan-wook's "The Handmaiden" will vie for the top Cannes prize of the Golden Palm(Palme d'Or) Award. 
 
Park's new thriller is the first South Korean film to be shortlisted for the festival in four years since Im Sang-soo's "The Taste of Money" and "In Another Country" by director Hong Sang-soo.
 
Park grabbed the Grand Prix honors at Cannes in 2004 with the thriller "Oldboy" and also won the jury prize for "Thirst" at the 2009 festival.
 
It's his third competition at Cannes.
 
His latest film "The Handmaiden" is set in 1930s Korea and Japan and is a story about an aristocratic lady who inherits huge wealth and the people eyeing her fortune.