European film week's 29th edition returns to Morocco in December

Organized by the European Union in Morocco in partnership with the ministry of youth, culture, and communication, the European film weeks are to return to Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, and Tangier from December 7 to December 2.

This year’s selection is made up of 8 European films which, thanks to the co-production system, represent 10 countries: Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania, and Sweden.

As announced on the official website of the Delegation of the European Union in Morocco, the selection is from a wide variety of genres: thriller, comedy, animation, drama, romance, social chronicle, and political fable all to be featured in this 29th edition.

The Swedish director Ruben Ostlund’s “No filter”, a social satire with ferocious humor and biting observations, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in May, will kick off the European Film Weeks.

The event will begin in the city of Casablanca, on December 7 in cinema Lutetia and will end on December 14.

As for the capital of lights, the event will kick start in the unique Renaissance cinema from December 10 to 17.

Marrakech will welcome the film week on the 12 and will bid it farewell on the 19.

Lastly, Tangier’s famous Cinematheque will open its doors for film week lovers from the 14 of December to the 21.

“Harka,” a fruit of a European co-production, will be screened in front of the event’s audience. It is set in post-revolutionary Tunisia and criticizes the corruption that afflicts the nation. 

Younger people will have the opportunity to experience “Icarus,” an animated marvel that brilliantly retells the Greek epic, as a part of the film weeks’ rich program.

Rodrigo Sorogoyen, a Spanish filmmaker, returns with “As Bestas,” a visually stunning rural thriller bolstered by a stellar cast to be seen at the event.

Young Belgian director Lukas Dhont’s powerful film “Close,” which explores the loss of innocence and the search for identity, demonstrates his prodigious skill and takes part in the program as well.

The French filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski released “The Children of Others,” which addresses a unique subject—the maturing love a forty-year-old lady develops for the daughter of her friend, which will be discovered by the Moroccan audience in the four cinemas.

The Italian artist Mario Martone’s great depiction of a man with a troubled background in “Nostalgia” in the dangerous city of Naples is to look up to in the upcoming film weeks.

The complicated political film “R.M.N.,” directed by Cristian Mungiu of Romania will also be screened at the event.

European Union in Morocco, the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication, the Moroccan Cinematographic Center, the Hiba Foundation, and the Superior School of Visual Arts of Marrakech have been organizing the European Film Weeks since 1991 with the goal of introducing the Moroccan public to major European successes through the eyes of renowned filmmakers and rising stars on a Europe of diversity.