Justin Kurzel’s political thriller The Order starring Jude Legislation will open the twenty first Marrakech Worldwide Movie Competition within the presence of the director and producer Stuart Ford later this month.
The movie is amongst seven movies that might be showcased as gala screenings on the Moroccan movie pageant, which unveiled its line-up on Thursday.
The galas additionally characteristic a trio of Greatest Worldwide Characteristic Movie Oscar entries, Nabil Ayouch’s All people Loves Touda (Morocco), Walter Salles’s I’m Nonetheless Right here (Brazil) and Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany), all of which is able to display screen within the presence of their administrators.
The pageant will display screen 70 options from 32 international locations throughout sections spanning the Official Competitors, Gala Screenings, Particular Screenings, the eleventh Continent, the Moroccan Panorama, Cinema for Younger Audiences & Households, and movies proven as a part of the Tributes program.
The 14 first and second movies in competitors embrace French and Moroccan director Saïd Hamich Benlarbi’s Throughout the Sea, a few younger Moroccan man trying to make a life in Marseille, which premiered in Cannes Critics’ Week; Venice Horizons choice Happyend by Neo Sora, and Polish Oscar entry Below The Volcano by Damian Kocur.
A lot of the contenders for Marrakech’s Étoile d’Or have been supported by the pageant’s Atlas Workshops on the improvement or post-production stage comparable to Mo Harawe’s The Village Subsequent To Paradise, which premiered in Cannes, and Hind Meddeb’s Sudan, Keep in mind Us.
This 12 months’s jury might be presided over by Luca Guadagnino, who has changed beforehand introduced Thomas Vinterberg who has cancelled his attendance for household causes. Jury members embrace director Ali Abbasi and actors Patricia Arquette, Virginie Efira Jacob Elordi and Andrew Garfield.
There’ll Particular Screenings for quite a lot of movie which have loved buzz on the worldwide pageant circuit this 12 months together with Andrea Arnold’s Hen, Edward Berger’s Conclave, Mahdi Fleifel’s To A Land Unknown, Payal Kapadia’s All We Think about As Mild and the UK’s Oscar entry On Turning into A Guinea Fowl by Rungano Nyoni.
Worldwide premieres within the part embrace Baya Kasmi’s tender comedy Mikado and The Vanishing, Karim Moussaoui’s, described as an enchanting story in regards to the passing down of values from one era to the subsequent.
There may also be a Particular Screening of a restored model of the 1988 characteristic The Camp at Thiaroye to mark the eightieth anniversary of the mass killing of French West African troops by French forces on the evening of November 30 to December 1, 1944, after the latter protested poor dwelling circumstances and lack of pay.
Three documentaries full the choice: Petra Costa’s Apocalypse within the Tropics, Ayman El Amir’s The Brink of Desires, and Myriam El Hajj’s Diaries from Lebanon.
The eleventh Continent program contains 13 modern fiction and documentary movies, together with Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour and Kamal Aljafari’s A Fidai Movie.
The Panorama of Moroccan Cinema presents 5 fiction and documentary movies by Moroccan administrators, of which three are world or worldwide 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 particularly distinguished this 12 months, with a complete of 12 movies introduced within the Competition’s numerous sections.
This system may also characteristic a range movies linked to the late Moroccan actress Naïma Elmcherqui, Canadian director David Cronenberg, and U.S. actor-director Sean Penn, who’re being feted for his or her careers this 12 months.
The pageant runs from November 29 to December 7.
The 2024 line-up
OFFICIAL COMPETITION
ACROSS THE SEA
by Saïd 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 Fıratoğlu / 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 movie
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 Field
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 model
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 François, 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
eleventh CONTINENT
A FIDAI FILM
by Kamal Aljafari / Palestine, Germany, Qatar, Brazil, France – Documentary
CABO NEGRO
by Abdellah Taïa / 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 model – 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 Kelaï / 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 Benoît Chieux / France, Belgium
SOMETIMES HAPPINESS, SOMETIMES SORROW
by Karan Johar / India
THREE ROBBERS AND A LION
by Rasmus A. Sivertsen / Norway
