The Marrakech Film Festival is back for its 19th edition! Discover the exceptional program for this new year full of screenings, encounters and previews.
After two years of absence due to the pandemic, the Marrakech film festival returns with great fanfare for its 19th edition. From November 11 to 19, festival-goers will be able to discover new films in preview and attend masterclasses with big names in cinema.
Among the festival’s unmissable events are the opening screening of Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro, exceptional gala screenings – including Master Gardener by Paul Schrader, Marlowe by Neil Jordan and La Syndicaliste by Jean-Paul Salomé – and special screenings – including Corsage by Marie Kreutzer, The Eternal Daughter by Johanna Hogg and Saint Omer by Alice Diop.
Among the other selections, we find the “11th Continent” section which presents audacious and innovative films, classic and modern, but also avant-garde works of Arab or African cinema, a panorama of Moroccan cinema with a selection of fiction and recent documentaries from national production.
Finally, festival-goers will also be able to (re)discover popular films screened outdoors on the mythical Jemaa El Fna square and children will be invited to discover the “Young audience” section with screenings for the youngest and high school students.
The Jury
To decide between the feature films in the official competition, the Marrakech film festival has brought together a prestigious jury from all over the world, which will be chaired by Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino.
He will be accompanied by the following jurors: American-Guatemalan actor Oscar Isaac, German-American actress Diane Kruger, French-Algerian actor Tahar Rahim, British actress Vanessa Kirby, Danish director Susanne Bier, Australian director Justin Kurzel, Lebanese actress and director Nadine Labaki and Franco-Moroccan director Laïla Marrakchi.
The events
The festival will pay several tributes to the careers of big names in the film industry, such as Tilda Swinton, James Gray, Farida Benlyazid and Ranveer Singh, including a program of films to (re)discover the works of the personalities honored.
Festival-goers will also be able to attend “Conversation with” masterclasses, which is a space for discussion between the public and the personalities who come to share their vision and their practice of cinema. Guests include Julia Ducournau, Marina Foïs, Leos Carax, Julie Delpy, Jeremy Irons, Ruben Ostlünd, Jim Jarmusch, Gabriel Yared, Asghar Fahradi and Ranveer Singh.
The competition
Fourteen films from around the world have been selected for the competition of this 19th edition of the Marrakech Film Festival. During the closing ceremony and award ceremony of the festival, five prizes are awarded by the Jury: the Grand Prize of the Festival (L’Étoile d’Or), the prize for directing, the Jury prize, the for female interpretation and the prize for male interpretation.
- Alma Viva by Cristèle Alves Meira (France, Portugal)
- Ashkal by Youssef Chebbi (France, Tunisia)
- Autobiography of Makbul Mubarak (Indonesia, France, Singapore, Poland, Philippines, Germany, Qatar)
- Faraway Song by Clarissa Campolina (Brazil)
- Petrol by Alena Lodkina (Australia)
- Red Shoes by Carlos Kaiser Eichelmann (Mexico, Italy)
- Savage by Ahmed Abdullahi (Sweden)
- Black Knight by Emad Aleebrahim Dehkordi (France, Germany, Iran, Italy)
- Lightning by Carmen Jaquier (Switzerland)
Find all the information about this 19th edition on the official website of the Marrakech Film Festival.