Marrakech Worldwide Movie Competition will current honorary tributes to Sean Penn, David Cronenberg and late Moroccan actress Naima Elmcherqui at its 21st version this 12 months (November 29-December 7).
The pageant will current a programme devoted to every particular person, that includes highlights from their careers.
Marrakech describes Penn as “one of the vital gifted actors of his era”, highlighting his work with filmmakers together with Brian De Palma (on Casualties Of Conflict), Oliver Stone (on U Flip), David Fincher (on The Recreation) and Terrence Malick (on The Tree Of Life).
The pageant notes that Canadian filmmaker Cronenberg “has constructed up a singular physique of labor that fascinates, disturbs, and questions by means of his most popular themes: expertise, the physique, and sickness.” It cites his collaborations with actors together with Jeremy Irons, Viggo Mortensen, Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
Elmcherqui – whose surname can be spelled Lamcharki – died on October 5 this 12 months, aged 81. She had labored within the Moroccan display business for the reason that Sixties, on movies together with Mohammed Abderrahman Tazi’s In Search of My Spouse’s Husband and Lalla Interest. She was additionally a member of the board of administrators of the pageant, which describes her as “a real grande dame. Her departure leaves a void within the nationwide cultural panorama.”
The Marrakech programme shall be introduced within the coming weeks, with Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg chairing the competitors jury. Initiatives by Lina Soualem and Djanis Bouzyani are among the many 27 titles chosen for the celebrated Atlas Workshops.