The Marrakech Film Festival has announced its stellar line-up for this year’s conversation program, including Jodie Foster, Guillermo del Toro and Bong Joon-ho.
The Morocco Festival, which runs from November 28th to December 6th, will also include a talk with “The Matrix” actor Laurence Fishburne. “Blonde” director Andrew Dominick. Director Jafar Panahi, director of “It Was an Accident” and this year’s Palme d’Or winner. Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Director Kleber Mendonça Filho of “The Secret Agent.” Bollywood director Karan Johan. Nadine Labaki is a Lebanese film director and actor. “The Prophet” actor Tahar Rahim. and Egyptian actor Yusra.
Two panel discussions were also made public. The first film pairs French-Belgian actor Virginie Efira, who won the Cesar Award for Best Actress for “Revoir Paris” (2022), with Italian-French actor and singer Chiara Mastroianni, who won the “Un Certain Regard” Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for “Chambre 212” (2021). According to a press release, Efira and Mastroianni will discuss “the acting profession, the freedom of character, and how cinema illuminates our relationship with the world.” The second film will be a showdown between director Asmae El Moudir, who won the Un Certain Regard director award at the Cannes Film Festival for “The Mother of All Lies” (2023), and Karima Saidi, director of “A Way Home.” This conversation, titled “Filming Memory: Between Collective History and the Intimate,” explores “how Moroccan documentaries explore memory, exile, and social change through personal narratives.”
This year’s Marrakech Film Festival lineup includes Foster’s Private Life, del Toro’s Frankenstein, Gus Van Sant’s Dead Man’s Wire and Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet. Mr. Pong is serving as jury foreman.
