Tag: 2025 Marrakech International Film Festival
Interview: Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, Zoe Stein & Agnès Pique Corbera – Forastera (2025)
Long before Bergman’s Persona undertook its psychological and existential excavation of selfhood, cinema had already been preoccupied for nearly a century with the blurring...
Interview: Mounia Akl – Hold Me (If You Want) (Work in Progress)
Exploring the intimate intersections of family, memory, and social constraint, often focusing on characters caught between personal desire and inherited structures, we first met...
Interview: Neeraj Ghaywan – Homebound (2025)
A filmmaker who has emerged as one of the an important post-2010 Indian independent film movement, he cut his teeth on Anurag Kashyap's Gangs...
Interview: Siyou Tan – Amoeba (2025)
The official mascot of Singapore represents a visual melting pot of Western and Eastern cultures. The Merlion represents the duality of this city-state. In...
Interview: Zamo Mkhwanazi – Laundry (2025)
Rooted in an observational, character-driven approach, Zamo Mkhwanazi's work explores intimate moments drawn from lived experience, focusing on how ordinary routines reveal larger social...
Interview: Ntobeko Sishi – Laundry (2025)
We first became aware of South Africa filmmaker Zamo Mkhwanazi’s cinema language with her last short film in the TIFF/Sundance selected Sadla back in...
Interview: Óliver Laxe – Sirāt (2025 Marrakech International Film Festival)
Óliver Laxe has been on a whirlwind promotional tour for his fourth feature ever since it premiered to thunderous critical acclaim at the Cannes...
Interview: Akinola Davies Jr. – My Father’s Shadow
Before he began his maiden voyage into Cannes (being selected for the Un Certain Regard section and winning a Special Mention for the Caméra...
Interview: Morad Mostafa – Aisha Can’t Fly Away
Part of a new wave of Egyptian filmmakers testing genre waters, Morad Mostafa builds from 2023 short "I Promise You Paradise," to once again...
2025 Marrakech Intl. Film Fest: Promised Sky Wins L’Étoile d’Or + All the Winners!
After acknowledging the work of Debora Lobe Naney, Jury president Bong Joon-ho awarded Marrakech's top award to Erige Sehiri's Promised Sky. The Under the...
2025 Marrakech Film Festival – Atlas Workshop: Asmae El Moudir & Laila Marrakchi Win Top Honors
Moroccan filmmakers Asmae El Moudir and Laila Marrakchi shared the €20,000 top prize ex aequo at the eighth edition of Marrakech’s Atlas Workshop, the...
2025 Marrakech Film Festival: Jarmusch, Panahi, Chan-wook, Enyedi, Chloé Zhao & Kaouther Ben Hania Among Selections
You can't get more of a best of the film festival circuit than what the Marrakech International Film Festival is offering this year. Opening...
2025 Marrakech Film Festival: New Projects by Scandar Copti, Mounia Akl & Amjad Al Rasheed at the Atlas Workshops
Before the Marrakech Film Festival unveil their 2025 line-up, we have learned the films that are the make up of the Atlas Workshops (November...
