The Marrakech International Film Festival has unveiled a high-powered in conversations program for its upcoming 21st edition gathering 18 leading directors, actors, scriptwriters, and producers.
They include U.S. director and screenwriter Ava Du Vernay (Origin, 13th), French Oscar winner Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall) and U.S director Tim Burton, who is currently riding high on the success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Speakers also include Walter Salles and Mohammed Rasoulof who are in the middle of buzzy Oscars campaigns for their Best International Feature Film contenders I’m Still Here and The Seed Of The Sacred Fig.
Canadian director and screenwriter David Cronenberg and U.S. actor director Sean Penn, who are being feted by the festival with career awards this year, will also participate.
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