The 18th edition of the Marrakech Intl. Film Festival awarded the Etoile d’Or for best film to Colombia’s “Valley of Souls,” directed by Nicolás Rincón Gille. In his acceptance speech the director …
The 18th edition of the Marrakech Intl. Film Festival awarded the Etoile d’Or for best film to Colombia’s “Valley of Souls,” directed by Nicolás Rincón Gille. In his acceptance speech the director said: “Colombia is a country that people know very little about. But in this film I try to offer a glimpse of the country and make us realize how we are connected at the deepest human level.”
Jury president Tilda Swinton announced all the awards, which she said were agreed unanimously between the jury members, who “part as friends for life.” U.K. producer Jeremy Thomas, during an onstage interview, emphasized that he has always wanted to remain as an independent producer because he feels uncomfortable with towing a mainstream line: “My cinema and my taste in my life is counterculture. That’s what I am. That’s an unusual place to be as a filmmaker, as a producer, because we’re not living in a counterculture time.”
In order to maximize audience engagement the tribute to Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra was held in Marrakech’s iconic Jemaa el Fna square, followed by an open-air screening of her 2015 hit “Bajirao Mastani.” “It was an extremely joyful celebration,” said Terhechte. “We’ve had actors and directors present the open-air screening on each night, but we had a particularly large crowd for the tribute to Priyanka. People were dancing in front of the screen. We had a blast.
Other Moroccan films screening included Abdelkader Lagtaa’s “A Love in Casablanca,” Farida Bourquia’s “Two Women on the Road,” and Saad Chraibi’s “Women… and Women.”
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