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Marrakech International Film Festival

30 November – 8 December 2018

The Marrakech International Film Festival's 17th edition will run from November 30 to December 8. The festival will feature an official competition section of 14 films, with director James Gray announced as jury president.

It will open with At Eternity's Gate and feature tributes to Robin Wright, Agnès Varda and Moroccan director Jillali Ferhati. Oscar winners Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro will also attend.

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  • The Load
    Review preview for The Load

    Glavonic, who has a background in documentary, has crafted a moody and broody piece, built less on onscreen incident than the oppressive atmosphere and offscreen imaginings.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A truck driver is tasked with transporting mysterious cargo across a scorched landscape from Kosovo to Belgrade during the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
  • Yomeddine
    Review preview for Yomeddine

    Shawky allows his characters to sit firmly in the driving seat.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.
  • Birds Of Passage
    Review preview for Birds Of Passage

    The rituals set in motion at the start, also tune us into the wavelength of portent, so that a heron's feet on a rug or the sound of locusts carry at least as much threat as the site of a loaded gun.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Story of a family who become involved with the drugs trade.
  • Diane
    Review preview for Diane

    Place, who appears in almost every scene, has never been better.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Diane is a devoted friend and caretaker, particularly to her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices.
  • Erased, Ascent Of The Invisible
    Review preview for Erased, Ascent Of The Invisible

    The nature of erasure and memory rubs up against ideas of collective guilt in Ghassan Halwani's measured and moving documentary.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Documentary about thousands of people who disappeared during the Lebanon Civil War.
  • At Eternity's Gate
    Review preview for At Eternity's Gate

    For those who know and love Van Gogh's work, the effect is hypnotic, a translation of his vision into a new medium.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    The last days of Vincent van Gogh.
  • Green Book
    Review preview for Green Book

    Mortensen has gained weight. He plays Tony with confidence.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    An Italian-American is hired as a driver for a world-class black pianist on a concert tour of the Deep South.
  • Look At Me
    Review preview for Look At Me

    We are spared the usual sugary score and the savant trope is nowhere to be seen. Instead we get the mess, the anger and the frustration much more common in real life.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Lotfi, 40, is forced to come back to Tunisia when his ex-wife is unexpectedly hospitalised. He is now in charge of his autistic son Amr, nine, who ignores the dad he has never known.
  • Rojo
    Review preview for Rojo

    The writer/director casts his net wide, taking inspiration from auteurs like John Boorman and Sam Peckinpah through to freeze-frame moments that could slot straight into TV detective dramas of the time.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Violence is sparked on the eve of Argentina's dictatorship.
  • Capernaum
    Review preview for Capernaum

    You might notice the elegance of composition while knowing that the place contains so much human suffering.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    A child rebels against the life imposed upon him.

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