The Marrakech International Film Festival have announced its complete line-up and in the official competition (first and second feature films) film titles we find a handful of Cannes and Venice Film Festival sidebar items most notably Venice’s own Orizzonti section with Neo Sora’s Happyend, Scandar Copti’s Happy Holidays and Murat Fıratoğlu’s One of Those Days When Hemme Dies as part of the fourteen films selected in pursuit of the Étoile d’Or. The selection of 70 films is also spread across the Gala Screenings, Special Screenings, the 11th Continent, Moroccan Panorama, Cinema for Young Audiences & Families, and the Tributes program. Awards season favorites in Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Edward Berger’s Conclave, Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light and Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow will also be present as is the case for several titles that represent their respective countries in the Best International Feature Film Oscar race. IONCINEMA.com will be covering the festival later this month. Here is the complete line-up:
Official Competition:
Across the Sea (La Mer au Loin) – Saïd Hamich Benlarbi
Bound in Heaven – Huo Xin
The Cottage (La Quinta) – Silvina Schnicer
Happy Holidays – Scandar Copti
Happyend – Neo Sora
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life – Laura Piani
Ma—Cry of Silence – The Maw Naing
One of Those Days When Hemme Dies – Murat Fıratoğlu
Perfumed with Mint – Muhammed Hamdy
Silent Storms – Dania Reymond-Boughenou
Sudan, Remember Us – Hind Meddeb
Under the Volcano – Damian Kocur
The Village Next to Paradise – Mo Harawe
The Wolves Always Come at Night – Gabrielle Brady
Gala:
The Order – Justin Kurzel (Opening Film)
Everybody Loves Touda – Nabil Ayouch
Fourth Wall (Le Quatrième Mur) – David Oelhoffen
I’m Still Here – Walter Salles
The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Mohammad Rasoulof
The Shrouds – David Cronenberg
The Ties That Bind Us (L’Attachement) – Carine Tardieu
Special Screenings:
All We Imagine as Light – Payal Kapadia
Apocalypse in the Tropics – Petra Costa
Bird – Andrea Arnold
The Brink of Dreams – Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir
The Camp at Thiaroye (Camp de Thiaroye) – Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow
Conclave – Edward Berger
Diaries from Lebanon – Myriam El Hajj
Fanon – Jean-Claude Barny
Kill the Jockey – Luis Ortega
Mikado – Baya Kasmi
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl – Rungano Nyoni
Stranger Eyes – Yeo Siew Hua
To a Land Unknown – Mahdi Fleifel
The Vanishing (L’Effacement) – Karim Moussaoui
Who Do I Belong To – Meryam Joobeur
11th Continent:
A Fidai Film – Kamal Aljafari
Cabo Negro – Abdellah Taïa
The Damned – Roberto Minervini
Grand Tour- Miguel Gomes
Green Line – Sylvie Ballyot
Higher Than Acidic Clouds – Ali Asgari
Nationality: Immigrant (Nationalité: Immigré) (1975) – Sidney Sokhona
The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder – Inadelso Cossa
No Sleep Till – Alexandra Simpson
Rising Up at Night (Tongo Saa) – Nelson Makengo
Rock Bottom – María Trénor
Universal Language (Une Langue Universelle) – Matthew Rankin
Wishing on a Star – Péter Kerekes
Moroccan Panorama:
(Y)Our Mother (Les Miennes) – Samira El Mouzghibati
The Blue Lake (Al Marja Zarqa) – Daoud Aoulad-Syad
Nocturnal Sonata (Sonata Laylia) – Abdeslam Kelaï
Since I Was Born (Puisque Je Suis Née) – Jawad Rhalib
The Thousand and One Days of Hajj Edmond – Simone Bitton
Cinema for Young Audiences & Families:
Dounia, the Great White North – Marya Zarif, André Kadi
Flow – Gints Zilbalodis
L’Batal – Omar Lotfi
Sirocco and the Kingdom of the Winds – Benoît Chieux
Sometimes Happiness, Sometimes Sorrow – Karan Johar
Three Robbers and a Lion – Rasmus A. Sivertsen
