Attention, the current film heavyweights are arriving in force at the 13th Marrakech International Film Festival. Understand, the members of the feature film jury, chaired by a Mister brand president, Martin Scorsese. Cult filmmakers, top star actors, everything that matters on the cinema planet will be placed in orbit in the ocher city from November 28 to December 7 for the 13th edition of this festival event. Zoom in for Persian stars, Golshifteh Farahani and Mexican, “the light man” Amat Escacalante.
The news finally came less than a month before the next edition of the 13th FIFM. The critics tried in vain many negotiations to obtain the names of the future members of the feature film jury, precious keys, likely to feed these columns: which artists were going to complete the line of the jury, chaired by Martin Scorsese, inevitably, crowned with obvious prestige? The organizers of the Marrakech Film Festival have observed religious silence, only communicating this famous jury list.
Amat Escacalante, explosive Mexican filmmaker, who signed the abrasive “Los Bastardos”, Fatih Akin, German-Turkish author of “Head on”, who revealed the Turkish-German actress Sybel Kekili, rewarded with the female actress prize for “L’Étrangère”, by Féos Aladag during the 10th FIFM, the Persian Golshifteh Farahani, Paolo Sorrentino, Narjiss Néjjar, embodying the colors of Morocco, Marion Cotillard, Patricia Clarkson, Anurag Kashiap and Park Chan-Wook.
Reader friends, fans of the 7th art, on the lookout for new names and faces with unparalleled talents are to be remembered among this jury.
As for the jury president of this 13th Marrakech International Film Festival, Martin Scorsese, he confided in an exclusive interview to MAP that he plans to adopt an approach based on openness to decide between the feature films in the running: “I do not opt to give precise orientations to the members of the jury in a film festival apart from a few basic principles for the organization of the work”, he declared. Verdict of the prize list, made up of those freed from the 7th art, on December 7…
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