Jude Law Movie ‘The Order’ To Open Marrakech As Fest Unveils 2024 Line-Up
Justin Kurzel’s political thriller The Order starring Jude Law will open the 21st Marrakech International Film Festival in the presence of the director and producer Stuart Ford later this month.
The film is among seven films that will be showcased as gala screenings at the Moroccan film festival, which unveiled its line-up on Thursday.
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The galas also feature a trio of Best International Feature Film Oscar entries, Nabil Ayouch’s Everybody Loves Touda (Morocco), Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here (Brazil) and Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany), all of which will screen in the presence of their directors.
The festival will screen 70 features from 32 countries across sections spanning the Official Competition, Gala Screenings, Special Screenings, the 11th Continent, the Moroccan Panorama, Cinema for Young Audiences & Families, and films shown as part of the Tributes program.
The 14 first and second films in competition include French and Moroccan director Sa?d Hamich Benlarbi’s Across the Sea, about a young Moroccan man attempting to make a life in Marseille, which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week; Venice Horizons selection Happyend by Neo Sora, and Polish Oscar entry Under The Volcano by Damian Kocur.
A number of the contenders for Marrakech’s étoile d’Or have been supported by the festival’s Atlas Workshops at the development or post-production stage such as Mo Harawe’s The Village Next To Paradise, which premiered in Cannes, and Hind Meddeb’s Sudan, Remember Us.
This year’s jury will be presided over by Luca Guadagnino, who has replaced previously announced Thomas Vinterberg who has cancelled his attendance for family reasons. Jury members include director Ali Abbasi and actors Patricia Arquette, Virginie Efira Jacob Elordi and Andrew Garfield.
There will Special Screenings for a number of film that have enjoyed buzz on the international festival circuit this year including Andrea Arnold’s Bird, Edward Berger’s Conclave, Mahdi Fleifel’s To A Land Unknown, Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light and the UK’s Oscar entry On Becoming A Guinea Fowl by Rungano Nyoni.
International premieres in the section include Baya Kasmi’s tender comedy Mikado and The Vanishing, Karim Moussaoui’s, described as a fascinating story about the passing down of values from one generation to the next.
There will also be a Special Screening of a restored version of the 1988 feature The Camp at Thiaroye to mark the 80th anniversary of the mass killing of French West African troops by French forces on the night of November 30 to December 1, 1944, after the latter protested poor living conditions and lack of pay.
Three documentaries complete the selection: Petra Costa’s Apocalypse in the Tropics, Ayman El Amir’s The Brink of Dreams, and Myriam El Hajj’s Diaries from Lebanon.
The 11th Continent program comprises 13 innovative fiction and documentary films, including Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour and Kamal Aljafari’s A Fidai Film.
The Panorama of Moroccan Cinema presents five fiction and documentary films by Moroccan directors, of which three are world or international premieres: Simone Bitton’s The Thousand and One Days of Hajj Edmond, Abdeslam Kelai’s Nocturnal Sonata, and Jawad Rhalib’s Since I Was Born. Moroccan cinema is especially prominent this year, with a total of 12 films presented in the Festival’s various sections.
The program will also feature a selection films connected to the late Moroccan actress Na?ma Elmcherqui, Canadian director David Cronenberg, and U.S. actor-director Sean Penn, who are being feted for their careers this year.
The festival runs from November 29 to December 7.
The 2024 line-up
OFFICIAL COMPETITION
ACROSS THE SEA
by Sa?d Hamich Benlarbi / France, Morocco, Belgium
BOUND IN HEAVEN
by Huo Xin / China
THE COTTAGE
by ??Silvina Schnicer / Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Chile
HAPPY HOLIDAYS
by Scandar Copti / Palestine, Germany, France, Italy, Qatar
HAPPYEND
by Neo Sora / Japan, USA
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 F?rato?lu / Türkey
PERFUMED WITH MINT
by Muhammed Hamdy / Egypt, Qatar, Tunisia, France
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
Opening film
THE ORDER
by Justin Kurzel / Canada
EVERYBODY LOVES TOUDA
by Nabil Ayouch / France, Morocco, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway
FOURTH WALL
by David Oelhoffen / France, Luxembourg, Belgium
I’M STILL HERE
by Walter 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 Arnold / UK
with Nykiya Adams, Franz Rogowski, Barry Keoghan, Jason Buda, Jasmine Jobson, Frankie Box
THE BRINK OF DREAMS
by Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir / Egypt, France, Denmark, 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, UK
DIARIES FROM LEBANON
by Myriam El Hajj / Lebanon, France, Qatar – Documentary
FANON
by Jean-Claude Barny / France, Luxembourg, Canada
with Alexandre Bouyer, Déborah Fran?ois, Stanislas Merhar, Mehdi Senoussi, Olivier
KILL THE JOCKEY
by Luis Ortega / Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Denmark, USA
MIKADO
by Baya Kasmi / France
with Félix Moati, Ramzy Bedia, Vimala Pons
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
by Rungano Nyoni / Zambia, UK
STRANGER EYES
by Yeo Siew Hua / Singapore, Taiwan, France, USA
TO A LAND UNKNOWN
by Mahdi Fleifel / UK, Palestine, France, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
THE VANISHING
by Karim Moussaoui / France, Germany, Tunisia
WHO DO I BELONG TO
by Meryam Joobeur / Tunisia, France, Canada
11th CONTINENT
A FIDAI FILM
by Kamal Aljafari / Palestine, Germany, Qatar, Brazil, France – Documentary
CABO NEGRO
by Abdellah Ta?a / France, Maroc
THE DAMNED
by Roberto Minervini / Italy, USA, Belgium
GRAND TOUR
by Miguel Gomes / Portugal, Italy, France
GREEN LINE
by Sylvie Ballyot / France, Lebanon, Qatar – Documentary
HIGHER THAN ACIDIC CLOUDS
by Ali Asgari / Iran, Luxembourg – Documentary
NATIONALITY: IMMIGRANT
by Sidney Sokhona / France – 1975 – Restored version – Documentary
THE NIGHTS STILL SMELL OF GUNPOWDER
by Inadelso Cossa / Mozambique, France, Germany, Portugal, Netherlands, Norway – Documentary
NO SLEEP TILL
by Alexandra Simpson / USA, Switzerland
RISING UP AT NIGHT
by Nelson Makengo / Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgium, Germany, Burkina Faso, Qatar – Documentary
ROCK BOTTOM
by María Trénor / Spain, Poland
with Fermi Herrero, Laura Casana
UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE
by Matthew Rankin / Canada
WISHING ON A STAR
by Péter Kerekes / Italy, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Croatia – Documentary
MOROCCAN PANORAMA
(Y)OUR MOTHER
by Samira El Mouzghibati / Belgium, France – Documentary
THE BLUE LAKE
by Daoud Aoulad-Syad / Morocco, Salem Daballa, Ranya Chani
NOCTURNAL SONATA
by Abdeslam Kela? / Morocco
SINCE I WAS BORN
by Jawad Rhalib / Morocco, Belgium
THE THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS OF HAJJ EDMOND
by Simone Bitton / Morocco, France – Documentary
CINEMA FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES & FAMILIES
DOUNIA, THE GREAT WHITE NORTH
by Marya Zarif, André Kadi / Canada
FLOW
by Gints Zilbalodis / Latvia, France, Belgium
L’BATAL
by Omar Lotfi / Morocco
SIROCCO AND THE KINGDOM OF THE WINDS
by Beno?t Chieux / France, Belgium
SOMETIMES HAPPINESS, SOMETIMES SORROW
by Karan Johar / India
THREE ROBBERS AND A LION
by Rasmus A. Sivertsen / Norway
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