Scandar Copti’s Palestinian drama Pleased Holidays took the Étoile d’Or foremost award on the 21st Marrakech Worldwide Movie Competition.
The movie, a Haifa-set drama by which a minor automobile accident units off a series of occasions that sow division in a patriarchal society, additionally obtained the perfect efficiency by an actress prize, shared between Wafaa Aoun and Manar Shehab.
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Pleased Holidays is a co-production between Palestine’s Fresco Movies, Germany’s Crimson Balloon Movie, France’s Tessalit Productions and Italy’s Intramovies. It debuted in Venice’s Biennale Cinema part in September, occurring to play Toronto.
The Marrakech awards had been chosen by a jury headed by Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino.
The jury prize was shared ex aequo between Silvina Schnicer’s Argentinian title The Cottage and Mo Harawe’s Somalian movie The Village Subsequent To Paradise, the latter of which got here by means of Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops.
Damian Kocur took the perfect directing prize for Underneath The Volcano.
A tribute was paid on the closing ceremony to late Moroccan icon Naima Elmcherqui. Yasmine Khayat, Elmcherqui’s daughter, mentioned “A lot of you have got come to inform us that we aren’t alone, that you just share our sorrow at having misplaced her and, above all, that you’re proud, like us, to have identified her, liked her and labored together with her.”
Attendees on the pageant this yr included Beetlejuice Beetlejuice director Tim Burton; David Cronenberg; Alfonso Cuaron; Ava DuVaernay, Todd Haynes; Abderrahmane Sissako; and Sean Penn, who was additionally recipient of an honorary Étoile d’Or.
300 Moroccan business professionals attended the 2024 version of the pageant; with a file 40,000 attendees for pageant screenings. This yr’s Atlas Workshops, mentored by The Bikeriders director Jeff Nichols, introduced 27 movie tasks in improvement or manufacturing.
Marrakech Worldwide Movie Competition 2024 winners
Étoile d’Or – Pleased Holidays (Pal-Ger-Fr-It-Qat) dir. Scandar Copti
Jury prize – The Cottage (Arg) dir. Silvina Schnicer; The Village Subsequent To Paradise (Som) dir. Mo Harawe, ex aequo
Finest directing – Damian Kocur for Underneath The Volcano
Finest efficiency by an actress – Wafaa Aoun, Manar Shehab for Pleased Holidays
Finest efficiency by an actor – Roman Lutskyi for Underneath The Volcano