Today, he oversees the Atlas Workshops with Marrakech general coordinator Ali Hajji and Atlas Workshops head Thibaut Bracq. He took over as Marrakech artistic director in 2020.
We’re looking for singular projects by filmmakers with a strong cinematic vision.”īonhomme spearheaded the initiative in 2018 while still in his position as programming manager at Cannes Critics’ Week. “One of our aims from the beginning has been to challenge international film industry preconceptions around cinema coming out of Africa and the Arab world. This year we took just 24 projects out of the 250 submissions we received,” says Rémi Bonhomme, Marrakech’s artistic director and Atlas Workshops director. ”We take an almost curatorial approach. We’re very selective. Source: Marrakech International Film Festival
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There are also a number of strong female stories ranging from Moroccan director Yasmine Benkiran’s Thelma & Louise-style Atlas region-set road movie Queens, to Tunisian director Charlie Kouka’s Joan of Arc-inspired debut feature Leïla’s Trial, revolving around a religious teenage girl being tried on terror offences, and Tunisian-French filmmaker Erige Sehiri’s rural youth culture drama Under The Fig Trees. Rwandan director Mutiganda wa Nkunda’s contemporary drama Phiona, A Girl From Madrid, for example, delves into the sensitive issue of his country’s attitudes to pregnancy outside of marriage, while Lesotho director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese is unveiling his plans for an ambitious 1852-set drama The Chattering Of Teeth, about a paranoid, war-weary community living in a mountain fortress, during the Workshops. Many of the projects aim to push cultural and cinematic boundaries. The event will culminate in a virtual co-production market and talks and panels programme open to all registered film professionals from November 22 to 25. The fourth edition has been running its mentoring activities online throughout November. See the full list of 2021 Atlas Workshops projects here While its parent festival is not taking place this year due to ongoing Covid-19 public health concerns in Morocco, an online iteration of the Atlas Workshops is alive and kicking, nurturing 15 projects in development and another nine features in production or post-production with the support of long-term partner Netflix. The Marrakech International Film Festival is carrying on this tradition with its Atlas Workshops industry and talent development programme fostering Moroccan, Arab, African and diaspora filmmakers and their feature film projects. Morocco’s historic city of Marrakech has long been an intersection for Arab and African culture thanks to its past as a trading post on ancient caravan routes crossing the Atlas Mountains and connecting Sub-Saharan Africa with the ports of North Africa and Europe beyond.
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