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Cannes (People’s Daily) -- The 72nd Cannes Film Festival came to a close Saturday night with South Korean director Bong Joon-ho one of the big winners.

He took home the Palme d'Or with his film ‘Parasite’.

Bong is the first Korean director to have won the top award at Cannes, after last appearing in competition with ‘Okja’ in 2017.

The film ‘Parasite’ revolves around a man and his unemployed family as they take a peculiar interest in a wealthy family, which leads all of them to become entangled in an unexpected incident.

Other winners included Antonio Banderas, won the best actor award for his role as a past-his-prime director in 'Pain and Glory’, while British actress Emily Beecham won the best actress award for ‘Little Joe’.

Brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne took best director honors for Young Ahmed, a film about a Belgian teenager embracing Islamic extremism.

Senegalese director Mati Dop's ‘Atlantics’ landed the runner-up Grand Prix award.