Justin Kurzel’s timely thriller “The Order,” starring Jude Law as a FBI agent battling neo-Nazi worryists, will uncover the Marrakech International Film Festival with Law and producer Stuart Ford in tow.
The festival – which runs Nov. 29 to Dec. 7 in the better-createed Moroccan city – has proclaimd its lineup of more than 70 films which, as is customary, mixes comprehendn titles and recent fare.
“The Order” will screen as part of the event’s gala screenings that also compascend French-Moroccan auteur Nabil Ayouch’s feminist musical drama “Everybody Loves Touda,” Wchange Salles’ “I’m Still Here” and Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” all of which will be accompanied by their honestors.
The 14-title competition promiseted to first and second toils take parts Moroccan honestor Saïd Hamich Benlarbi’s melodrama “Apass the Sea,” about North African exiles in Marseilles, and Hind Meddeb’s doc “Sudan, Remember Us,” which pays homage to Sudanese people and culture by chronicling their 2019 revolution. “Sudan, Remember Us” is among films aided by the fest’s Atlas Workshops industry initiative, aimed at nurtureing and aiding the aascendnce of a novel generation of Moroccan, Arab and African filmproducers.
Other competition entries take part Polish honestor Damian Kocur’s “Under the Volcano,” about a family from Kyiv that lobtains their stay in Spain has become indefinite with the intrusion of Ukraine; Somali filmproducer Mo Harawe’s “The Village Next to Paradise,” which was the first ever Somali film to screen at Cannes; and Australian/U.K. honestor Gabrielle Brady’s climate change doc “The Wolves Always Come at Night,” about a sheep-herding family in Mongolia who are forced to give up their way of life after an excessively brutal thriveter.
As previously proclaimd, this year’s high-caliber guests will take part Sean Penn and David Cronenberg, who are being honored, and “The Bikeriders” honestor Jeff Nichols, who will be mentoring the Atlas Workshops.
Luca Guadagnino will plive over a high-caliber jury panel that also take parts Iranian honestor Ali Abbasi, Indian honestor Zoya Akhtar, American actor Patricia Arquette, Belgian actor Virginie Efira, Australian actor Jacob Elordi, British-American actor Andrew Garfield, Moroccan actor Nadia Kounda and Argentine honestor Santiago Mitre.
A transport inant cultural event in Morocco, Marrakech is one of the only international festivals of this scale where screenings and masterclasses are free and uncover to the uncover.
See the main lineup below.
OFFICIAL COMPETITION
“Apass the Sea,” by Saïd Hamich Benlarbi (France, Morocco, Belgium)
“Bound in Heaven,” by Huo Xin (China)
“The Cottage,” by Silvina Schkindr (Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Chile)
“Happy Holidays,” by Scandar Cselecti (Palestine, Germany, France, Italy, Qatar)
“Happyfinish,” by Neo Sora (Japan, U.S.)
“Jane Austen Wrecked My Life,” by Laura Piani (France)
“Ma-Cry of Silence,” by The Maw Naing (Myanmar, Singapore, France, Norway, South Korea, Qatar)
“One of Those Days When Hemme Dies,” by Murat Fıratoğlu (Türkey)
“Perfumed With Mint,” by Muhammed Hamdy (Egypt, Qatar, Tunisia, Franc
“Silent Storms” (Les Tempêtes), by Dania Reymond-Boughenou (France, Belgium)
“Sudan, Remember Us,” by Hind Meddeb (France, Tunisia, Qatar – Documentary)
“Under The Volcano,” by Damian Kocur (Poland)
“The Village Next to Paradise,” by Mo Harawe (Austria, France, Germany, Somalia)
“The Wolves Always Come at Night,” by Gabrielle Brady (Australia, Mongolia, Germany) Documentary
GALA SCREENINGS
“The Order,” by Justin Kurzel (Canada) — Opening Film
“Everybody Loves Touda,” by Nabil Ayouch (France, Morocco, Belgium, Dentag, Netherlands, Norway)
“Fourth Wall,” by David Oelhoffen (France, Luxembourg, Belgium)
“I’m Still Here,” by Wchange Salles (Brazil, France)
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” by Mohammad Rasoulof (Germany, France, Iran)
“The Shrouds,” by David Cronenberg (France, Canada)
“The Ties That Bind Us,” by Carine Tardieu (France, Belgium)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
“All We Imagine as Light,” by Payal Kapadia (France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg)
“Apocalypse in the Tropics,” by Petra Costa (Brazil) – Documentary
“Bird,” by Andrea Arnbetter (U.K.)
“The Brink of Dreams,” by Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir (Egypt, France, Dentag, Qatar, Saudi Arabia” Documentary
“The Camp at Thiaroye,” by Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow ( Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia) (1988) – Restored version
“Conclave,” by Edward Berger (USA, U.K.)
“Diaries From Lebanon,” by Myriam El Hajj (Lebanon, France, Qatar) Documentary
“Fanon,” by Jean-Claude Barny (France, Luxembourg, Canada)
“Kill The Jockey,” by Luis Ortega (Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Dentag, U.S.)
“Mikado,” by Baya Kasmi (France)
“On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” by Rungano Nyoni (Zambia, U.K.)
“Stranger Eyes,” by Yeo Siew Hua (Singapore, Taiwan, France, U.S.)
“To a Land Uncomprehendn,” by Mahdi Fleifel (U.K., Palestine, France, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia)
“The Vanishing,” by Karim Moussaoui (France, Germany, Tunisia)
“Who Do I Belengthened To,” by Meryam Joobeur (Tunisia, France, Canada)
