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NewsThomas Vinterberg to chair Marrakech film festival jury 1c2k3n
Danish filmmaker’s credits include ‘Another Round’ and ‘The Hunt’.
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Asmae El Moudir lines up first fiction feature ‘Holy Cow’ (exclusive) 4e6y5z
El Moudir won the Best Director award in Un Certain Regard last year with her documentary The Mother of All Lies.
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‘Everybody Loves Touda’: Cannes Review 3z633v
Nabil Ayouch travels to a rowdy Casablanca bar for this musically-driven drama starring Nisrin Erradi
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‘Backstage’: Red Sea Review 1z4ws
of a Moroccan dance troup find themselves lost in the woods in this spellbinding drama
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Morocco’s ‘The Mother of All Lies’ wins historic top prize at Marrakech 4z1b6u
Further winners included Kamal Lazraq’s ‘Hounds’ and Lina Soualem’s ‘Bye Bye Tiberius’.
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Buzzy Atlas Workshop project ‘The Camel Driving School’ adds international co-producers (exclusive) 6x3w3g
‘The Camel Driving School’ is about a Moroccan woman who becomes part of a group of rebel women in her community.
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Tunisia’s ‘Motherhood’, Palestine’s ‘Amnesia’ grab top prizes at Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops 6y82j
‘Motherhood’ is directed by Tunisa’s Meryam Joobeur while ‘Amnesia’ is by Palestine’s Dima Hamdam.
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“I’m excited for my project to be out in the world”: Inside the ateliers of Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops 3q584v
The talent deveopment programme takes place in ateliers and has the feel of an artists’ residence.
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Marrakech film festival opens with demure red carpets, denim-clad attendees and a low-key mood 715d2
However Jessica Chastain and her jury could be relied on for glamour.
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Martin Scorsese forced to pull out of Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops for “personal reasons” 6nka
The ‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ director has to stay in New York.
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Morocco’s Adnane Baraka turns to fiction for third film ‘We Don’t Forget’ 505w1s
“The narrative resonates with current uncertainties,” suggests Baraka, who is participating in the Atlas Workshops.
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“Visibility allows you to be heard more and sooner for the next film, but funding is just as difficult,” says the Tunisian director.
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Ismaël El Iraki talks developing Atlas Workshops project ‘Wolfmother’ with ’s Bac Films 635x2i
At $3m, the film noir is a “pretty ambitious project”, says the Moroccan director.
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“I insist on quality”: Atlas Workshops’ Hédi Zardi on genre films and the growing appeal of Arab and African cinema 4b6t4o
The Atlas Workshops feature the participation of Martin Scorsese as its first patron this year.
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“We screen 440 hours of new content a year:” How Al Jazeera is becoming a major documentary player 6pm4p
“We are a bridge between filmmakers to the north and to the south.”
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Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops unveils 25 projects from Arab and African filmmakers for 2023 edition 572f2v
Projects come from 11 different countries across the Arab world and African continent.
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Marrakech unveils 2023 line-up and sets Richard Linklater’s ‘Hit Man’ as opening film 3p1j3y
Festival has programmed 75 films from 36 countries.
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Joanna Hogg, Joel Edgerton Marrakech festival jury 5n235s
Zar Amir, Camille Cottin, Dee Rees, Tarek Saleh, Alexander Skarsgård and Leïla Slimani also the jury
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Spain’s Zabriskie Films launches distribution arm with Un Certain Regard title ‘Hounds’ (exclusive) 5o3h32
‘Hounds’ is the feature debut of Moroccan director Kamal Lazraq.
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‘The Mother Of All Lies’: Cannes Review 16741
Asmae El Moudir explores the history of both her family and her Casablanca neighbourhood in this distinctive documentary
