Oscar-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (Another Round) will chair the jury of the upcoming Marrakech International Film Festival, with whom he has a long-standing relationship.
The Marrakech jury will award the Etoile d’Or to one of the 14 first and second films in the fest’s international competition. Recent winners include Moroccan director Asmae El Moudir’s Mother of all the Lies last year and French-Iranian director Emad Alebrahim-Dekordi’s A Tale of Shemroon in 2022. There is.
Vinterberg was a co-founder of Denmark’s Dog Me 95 movement with Lars von Trier in the mid-1990s, and served on the Marrakech jury in 2015 when Francis Ford Coppola was jury foreman. He was in charge of
His vast and widely acclaimed filmography includes “Celebration,” also known as “Festen” (1998), which won the Cannes Jury Prize when Vinterberg was 28 years old. “All About Love” (2003); “Dear Wendy” (2005). “When a Man Comes Home” (2007). “Submarino” (2010). “The Hunt” (2012). “Far from the Crown of Madness” (2015); and “The Commune” (2016).
Director Vinterberg’s latest film is the climate change TV miniseries “Families Like Ours,” which depicts Denmark literally shut down due to flooding, which debuted at the Venice Film Festival in September. It is scheduled to be broadcast in Denmark this month.
“In this rapidly changing and increasingly divided world, festivals like Marrakech provide a much-needed window into different cultures,” Vinterberg said in a statement. “Movies can explain the unexplainable. Make us understand the unacceptable. And right now there’s really a lot to understand.”
Now in its 21st year, the festival is closely associated with some of the world’s finest writers and will be held from November 29th to December 7th in Morocco’s ancient city.
