The upcoming festival also disclosed a fascinating list for their ‘In Conversation With...’ the beloved series which gives audiences a chance to meet some of the biggest names in cinema from around the world.
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'Creative Sources': The Brooklyn Museum turns into a Spike Lee Joint
A new exhibition, which is ongoing until the 4th of February, 2024, offers a rare glimpse into the world of Spike Lee — filmmaker, iconoclast and, most importantly, disruptor.
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Marrakech International Film Festival announces Star Jury ensemble for upcoming 20th edition
The distinguished group of thespians and filmmakers from all over the world will join Jury President Jessica Chastain, whose involvement in the chic Moroccan festival was previously announced.
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The Selfies Interviews: Kaouther Ben Hania on her second Oscar submission, plus retelling a story through different lenses
As ‘Four Daughters’ finally opens in the U.S., I sat down with the film’s director at the London Film Festival for a dose of typically straight to the point insight into her work and the film’s necessity, in our current media landscape that likes to categorize people as just good or evil, when life is really mostly lived in shades of grey.
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Baloji discusses Belgian Oscars submission 'Omen', a favorite filmmaker and the vibrations in a name
When the Belgian-Congolese rapper turned filmmaker premiered his film in Cannes, earlier this year, Baloji singlehandedly changed the history of his adoptive country for the better — a lesson for all in what it takes to begin to amend the wrongs of colonialism.
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Watch American filmmaker Alex Gibney's discuss 'In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon'
The multi-award winning documentarian who brought us ‘Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief” and the Oscar-winning ‘Taxi to the Dark Side’ — among many, many more gems — sat down with me for a Selfies Interview you won’t want to miss.
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Jessica Chastain to head Marrakech Film Festival jury at 20th anniversary edition
The prolific, and outspoken actress and producer will head the jury which will award the Étoile d’Or to one of the fourteen films by first- or second-time directors in the festival’s international competition.
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'The World of Tim Burton' in Turin: the surrealist maestro lands in Italy's esoteric landmark city
Widely known as one of the most imaginative artists and as a director capable of creating the most bizarre visual effects, Tim Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre cinema according to his very personal vision, along the way winning an international fan base and influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video and graphic design.
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Gabrielle Chanel, 31 rue Cambon, Paris, 1937. Photo by Roger Schall
Gabrielle Chanel decoded: Fashion Manifesto opens at the V&A in London
While her name is known the world over, and her brand remains one of the most coveted in luxury wear year after year, not everyone knows the kind of divisive, at times downright problematic and extremely driven woman Gabrielle Chanel was. Now a fashion exhibition at the V&A sheds light on it all, no holds barred.
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The iconic Jane Birkin to be honored at upcoming El Gouna Film Festival
Hermès named a luxury handbag after her and she’s still dictating fashion do’s and don’t’s to “It” girls around the world. Now Egypt’s glamorous festival on the Red Sea pays homage to the late legend by presenting a selection of films that showcase her remarkable life and career.
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Photo by © Brigitte Lacombe, courtesy of the Marrakech Film Festival
Martin Scorsese to attend 20th anniversary edition of Marrakech Film Festival
The beloved Italian-American filmmaker will also be patron, looking over the 6th edition of the Atlas Workshops.
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Stylish should be his middle name: Luca Guadagnino to receive SIAE Andrea Purgatori prize in Venice
From his latest collaboration with Spanish luxury house Loewe, to his latest film which features everyone’s favorite girl Zendaya, the Italian-Algerian filmmaker and fashionista has always proven that cinema and fashion go hand in hand.
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"...I haven't completely lost hope" writes Amos Gitai about Israel, in Sunday's 'La Repubblica'
The beloved international filmmaker and artist, who spends his time between Haifa and Paris, has taken to writing op-eds in the international media, where he equates his country’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu to Machiavelli and draws parallels between Israel’s distant past with its possible undoing because of Bibi’s latest act.
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Michael Winterbottom at Qumra 2023: "If you want to have a healthy film culture, you want directors who are making lots of films"
Qumra Master Michael Winterbottom is a critically acclaimed British filmmaker renowned for unconventional narratives and hard-hitting social commentary. In fact, what Winterbottom does counts as much in real life as it does on the big screen.
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Kaouther Ben Hania, in blue, flanked by the cast and crew of her latest film in Cannes
An open letter to Kaouther Ben Hania about her latest film 'Four Daughters'
For as long as I've been watching her work, the filmmaker has been reinventing cinema, her cinema, which knows no boundaries and sees no limits.
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John Malkovich talks 'Seneca', acting in the TikTok generation & shooting in Morocco, again
The American actor may have said something during the press conference about his good friend Julian Sands, also featured in the film Malkovich is promoting at this year's Berlinale, but during our interview the tragedy of the actor who has gone missing felt like a looming presence, unspoken and indescribable.
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An interview with Aamir Khan for 'Laal Singh Chaddha', the Indian Forrest Gump
"We have such a large and healthy audience of our own in India, the fact is that none of the filmmakers have really felt the need to reach out to a world audience," Aamir Khan told me in 2010, "and when I say really felt the need, I mean filmmakers in Argentina perhaps, or in France or Germany, different parts of the world, don't have such big and healthy audiences of their own and so they come from a situation where they really need to reach out to a world audience and an audience in the West."
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"The language of cinema is universal": Damian Kocur's 'Bread and Salt' in Cairo
Before the film received one more award, this time at the Cairo International Film Festival, I sat down with the Polish filmmaker to talk cinema, inspiration and what constitutes the best soundtrack of all to him in a film.
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Hany Abu-Assad talks 'Huda's Salon', Arab women audiences & the theme of betrayal
In his latest film, Palestinian auteur Hany Abu-Assad does what he does best -- tackles betrayal and draws us a story made in human shades of grey.
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Darren Aronofsky at El Gouna FF gives a masterclass in personal filmmaking
The American filmmaker talked about inspiration, meeting one's heroes and making personal films the audience wants to watch, at a great masterclass in Egypt. in 2021.
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