The international film festival of Marrakech (FIFM) is coming back on November 11 with a list of the world’s biggest cinema names and one of the program’s most anticipated events: in conversation with.
The festival is bringing the award-winning director Asghar Farhadi, international sensation Julie Delpy, and the talented Jeremy Irons, among others to grace the audience with valuable conversation on art cinema, and their respected careers.
‘In conversation with’ will begin on Saturday, November 12, and resume on Friday, November 18.
On the first day, Ranveer Singh will join film professionals and lovers to exchange their love for cinema.
On the program’s second day, Leos Carax and Marina Foïs will join.
As a film critic and the creator of various short films, Leos Carax started his career in the motion picture industry.
With his first movie, ‘Boy Meets Girl’, released in 1984, he established his bold, rule-breaking visual style. The French creative next created ‘Bad Blood’, which continued to explore the complexity of love in the modern world and was chosen for the Berlin International Film Festival. He released the well-regarded ‘Lovers’ on the Bridge in 1991.
The French Italian artist Marina Foïs, with roles in films like ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’, ‘Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra’, and ‘Don’t Die Too Hard’. She established herself as a main actress in the French comedy scene during the 2000s.
She was nominated for a Cesar Award in 2003 for ‘Hypnotized and Hysterical (Hairstylist Wanted)’, in the category of Best New Actress. She switched to drama in 2007 with the film ‘Darling’, for which she was nominated for a Cesar for Best Actress.
Marina received the same nomination for her performance in ‘Polisse’. With appearances in ‘Sink or Swim’ and the ‘Papa ou Maman’ films, she went on to establish herself as a major performer in French cinema.
French actress Julie Delpy takes place on the third day of the program.
She worked with director Richard Linklater on his ‘Before’ trilogy, co-writing the screenplays for ‘Before Sunset’ and ‘Before Midnight’, which helped her win multiple prizes for best script, and ‘Before Midnight’, which nominated her for Best Actress at the Golden Globes and the Spirit Awards.
Delpy has worked with some of the world’s most creative directors, including Jim Jarmusch, who will be joining the festival ‘In conversation with’ as well.
On Tuesday, the Marrakech audience will meet up with Julia Ducournau and Jim Jarmusch.
Julia Ducournau is a 1983-born French film director and screenwriter. She studied screenplay at La Femis, and in 2011 her short film ‘Junior’ was chosen for La Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival.
This brought her international notoriety. When it premiered at the Semaine de la Critique in 2016 and won the FIPRESCI Prize, her debut feature-length picture, ‘Raw’, sent shockwaves through the film community. The Palme d’Or went to her second film, ‘Titane’ (2021), which was shown in Cannes’ Official Competition.
The American director Jim Jarmusch who’s scheduled on the same day is an author, singer, producer, and artist.
His well-known films include ‘Stranger than Paradise’ (1984), Down by Law (1986), Dead Man (1995), ‘Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai’ (1999), ‘Broken Flowers’ (2005), ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ (2013), ‘Paterson’ (2016), and ‘The Dead Don’t Die’, which was shown at the Festival de Cannes 2019 opening.
He is a prominent figure in independent cinema. Anthology Editions released his book ‘Some Collages’ in 2021. With his ensemble ‘SQÜRL’, Lutenist Jozef Van Wissem, and other musicians, he creates music that he performs live.
French Lebanese composer Gabriel Yared will give his master class on Wednesday.
He composed the music for ‘Every Man for Himself’ by Jean-Luc Godard. Within a short period of time, Yared started working with well-known directors like Robert Altman, Costa-Gavras, Etienne Chatiliez, and Jean-Jacques Annaud, for whose picture ‘L’Amant’ he received a Cesar.
Yared has won a BFTA, a Grammy award, and a Golden Globe.
Thursday is the program’s most awaited day, with the Iranian multi-award-winning director and screenwriter Asghar Farhadi and British Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons.
Farhadi’s ‘A separation’ won well-deserved critical acclaim and a plethora of awards worldwide, including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, making Farhadi the first Iranian filmmaker to win an Oscar.
His film ‘The salesman’ landed him a second Oscar.
Jeremy Irons has won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Claus von Bulow in ‘Reversal of Fortune’, a Golden Globe, an Emmy, a Tony, a SAG, and Cesar Award.
His film highlights include ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’, ‘The Mission’, ‘Dead Ringers’, ‘Kafka’, ‘Stealing Beauty’, ‘Lolita’, The Man in the Iron Mask’, ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ and ‘Inland Empire’.
He recently took part in ‘Margin Call’, ‘High-Rise’, ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’, ‘The Man Who Knew Infinity’, ‘Red Sparrow’ and ‘Love, Weddings & Other Disasters’.
On Friday, Swedish Ruben Östlund will meet up with Marrakech’s audience on the last day of the ‘In conversation with’ program.
With his feature debut, The Guitar Mongoloid (2005), Ruben won the FIPRESCI Prize at the Moscow International Film Festival. In the Cannes festival’s ‘Un Certain Regard’, he won the Jury Prize and was with ‘Force Majeure’.
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