Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Oscar-winning Danish director Thomas Vinterberg (“Another Round”) will preside over the jury of the upcoming Marrakech International Film Festival, with which he has a longstanding rapport.
The Marrakech jury will award its Étoile d’Or to one of the 14 first and second films in the fest’s international competition.
Recent winners include Moroccan director Asmae El Moudir’s “Mother of all the Lies” last year and French-Iranian helmer Emad Aleebrahim-Dehkordi’s “A Tale of Shemroon” in 2022.
Vinterberg, who was a co-founder with Lars von Trier of the Danish Dogme 95 movement in the mid 1990s, previously served as a Marrakech jury member in 2015 when Francis Ford Coppola was jury president.
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