Luca Guadagnino has been appointed jury president on the twenty first Marrakech Worldwide Movie Competition, changing beforehand introduced Thomas Vinterberg who has cancelled his attendance for household causes.
Guadagnino can be joined by The Apprentice director Ali Abbasi, Indian director Zoya Akhtar (The Archies), American actor Patricia Arquette (Boyhood), Belgian actor Virginie Efira (Paris Reminiscences), Australian actor Jacob Elordi ( Priscilla), British-American actor Andrew Garfield (Spider-Man: No Means Residence), Moroccan actor Nadia Kounda (Summer season Days) and Argentine director Santiago Mitre (Argentina, 1985).
Guadagnino arrives on the competition contemporary from the launch of Queer starring Daniel Craig, which follows different acclaimed movies akin to Name Me By Your Identify and Challengers.
The Italian director talked of lengthy ties with the town of Marrakech and its competition.
“I’ll always remember the primary time I arrived in Marrakech: it should’ve been greater than 20 years in the past, after I was a visitor of my pal Valentina Cervi, who was sitting on the jury of the quick movie competitors. I had by no means been to Morocco earlier than however my Algeri an mom grew up there and moved to Casablanca on the age of 5,” he recalled.
The primary time I landed within the nice metropolis of Marrakech, it was due to this superb competition and since then for me the Metropolis and Cinema are indissolubly linked. My Arab DNA is basically, actually engraved within the superb powers of the competition of Marrakech and it’s a large honor to guide an exquisite jury for the twenty first version,” he added.
The jury will award the twenty first version’s Étoile d’Or to one of many 14 first and second movies in competitors, following final 12 months’s winner, Asmae El Moudir’s The Mom of All Lies , determined by a jury chaired by Jessica Chastain.
The competition runs from November 29 to December 7.
