U.S. director Jeff Nichols has been named because the 2024 patron of the Marrakech Worldwide Movie Pageant’s Atlas Workshops, because the expertise and venture incubator additionally unveils the initiatives chosen for this 12 months’s version.
Launched in 2018, the initiative has supported a raft of rising and extra established filmmakers and their initiatives, hailing from Morocco, the Arab world, and Africa.
Nichols – whose filmography consists of 2011 Cannes Critics’ Week winner Take Shelter, Cannes Palme d’Or contenders Mud (2012) and Loving (2016) in addition to more moderen credit score The Bikeriders – is the second introduced patron.
The position was created final 12 months, with Martin Scorsese attributable to kick off the inaugural patronship, however he was compelled to cancel his Marrakech journey for private causes on the eleventh hour.
Nichols will participate in a variety of periods with chosen initiatives in improvement and post-production. This 12 months’s cohort of filmmakers might be often known as the Class of Jeff Nichols.
“I’m thrilled to go to this unbelievable competition for the primary time. Accepting the place as Patron to this 12 months’s Atlas Workshops is an honor, and I take into account myself fortunate to have the chance to share within the journey these filmmakers are on,” mentioned the director.
“Interacting with different filmmakers is all the time an inspiration to me, and I hope my involvement helps them on their path to getting their movies out into the world.”
Mission particulars
This 12 months’s Atlas Workshops will host 17 initiatives in improvement and 10 movies in manufacturing or post-production from 13 nations, chosen from 320 purposes obtained from throughout the African continent and the Arab world.
Chronicles From A Siege Period
Proof Movies
Highlights in improvement embody Alicante, the primary fiction characteristic from French-Palestinian-Algerian director Lina Soualem after her award-winning documentary Bye Bye Tiberias. From Morocco, Talal Selhami will unveil The Shelter, his third movie after the buzzy horror Achoura and fantasy thriller Mirages.
First characteristic movies in improvement embody The Supply by Mouloud Ouyahia, whose brief movie The Home is on Hearth, May as Properly Get Heat was introduced in Cannes Administrators’ Fortnight in 2023, and multidisciplinary artist Nuno Miranda, who explores the attractive assembly of two soulmates amid mourning and exile in Flowers of the Useless.
Movies in manufacturing or post-production embody Within the Shadows of Good Fortune by Nigerian director Babatunde Apalowo, whose All of the Colors of the World Are Between Black and White performed within the Berlinale’s Panorama line-up in 2023.
The choice will even unveil first appears to be like for Cherien Dabis’s All That’s Left of You (Palestine); Marwan Hamed’s El Sett (Egypt), his eagerly awaited biopic of legendary diva Umm Kulthum; and Tarzan & Arab Nasser’s As soon as Upon a Time in Gaza (Palestine).
The Atlas Workshops will unveil the primary pictures of two movies that participated in earlier editions whereas in improvement: Zamo Mkhwanazi’s Laundry (South Africa) and Meryem Benm’Barek’s Behind the Palm Bushes (Morocco), which have been chosen for the platform in 2018 and 2022 respectively.
Operating from December 1 to five inclusive, the seventh version is in the future longer than earlier years.
Mission line-up for the seventh Atlas Workshops (* denotes first movie)
Tasks in Improvement
Alicante, Lina Soualem (Algeria)
The Beastly One, Walid Messnaoui (Morocco) *
Flowers of the Useless, Nuno Miranda (Cape Verde) *
Ici Repose, Moly Kane (Senegal) *
Fortunate Lady, Linda Lô (Senegal) *
The Orange Grove, Murad Abu Eisheh (Jordan) *
Princesse Téné, Fabien Dao (Burkina Faso) *
Pure Insanity (Pure Folie), Inès Arsi (Tunisia) | Doc *
Samir, The Unintended Spy, – Charlotte Rabate (Syria) *
The Shelter, Talal Selhami (Morocco)
The Supply, Mouloud Ouyahia (Algeria) *
Your Flip, 2023, Cynthia Sawma (Lebanon) *
Atlas Shut-ups (Moroccan initiatives in improvement)
And Nonetheless I Rise, Djanis Bouzyani, doc *
Dar Marjana, Lamia lazrak, doc *
Fatwa, Mohamed el Badaoui
The Subject, Mohamed Bouhari *
The Nours– Yassine Iguenfer *
Movies in Manufacturing or Publish-production
Aisha Can’t Fly Away, Morad Mostafa (Egypt) *
All That’s Left Of You, Cherien Dabis (Palestine)
Bardi, Tala Hadid (Morocco)
Behind The Palm Bushes, Meryem Benm’barek (Morocco)
Chronicles From A Siege Period, Abdallah Al-Khatib (Palestine, Syria)
In The Shadows Of Good Fortune, Babatunde Apalowo (Nigeria) –
It’s A Unhappy and Lovely World, Cyril Aris (Lebanon)
Laundry, Zamo Mkhwanazi (South Africa) *
As soon as Upon A Time In Gaza, Tarzan & Arab Nasser (Palestine)
Atlas Movie Showcase (movie in remaining phases of enhancing and searching for a competition premiere)
El Sett, Marwan Hamed (Egypt)
Chosen Moroccan Professionals at Atlas Station
Youssef Amar, Producer
Khaoula Assebab, Director and Producer
Zineb Chafchaouni Moussaoui, Director
Meriame Essadak, Producer
Aymane Hammou, Director and Producer
Hicham Harrag, Director and Producer
Samir Harrag, Director and Producer
Safae Lahgazi Alaoui, Director
Jabrane Lakhssassi, Director and Producer
Basma Rkioui, Director and Producer
