Scandar Copti’s Palestinian drama Glad Holidays took the Étoile d’Or primary award on the 21st Marrakech Worldwide Movie Pageant.
The movie, a Haifa-set drama during which a minor automotive accident units off a series of occasions that sow division in a patriarchal society, additionally acquired the most effective efficiency by an actress prize, shared between Wafaa Aoun and Manar Shehab.
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Glad Holidays is a co-production between Palestine’s Fresco Movies, Germany’s Purple 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 have 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 Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops.
Damian Kocur took the most effective 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 might have come to inform us that we aren’t alone, that you simply share our sorrow at having misplaced her and, above all, that you’re proud, like us, to have identified her, cherished her and labored along with her.”
Attendees on the competition 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 trade professionals attended the 2024 version of the competition; with a document 40,000 attendees for competition screenings. This yr’s Atlas Workshops, mentored by The Bikeriders director Jeff Nichols, offered 27 movie initiatives in improvement or manufacturing.
Marrakech Worldwide Movie Pageant 2024 winners
Étoile d’Or – Glad 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
Greatest directing – Damian Kocur for Underneath The Volcano
Greatest efficiency by an actress – Wafaa Aoun, Manar Shehab for Glad Holidays
Greatest efficiency by an actor – Roman Lutskyi for Underneath The Volcano