The 19th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival (FIFM), scheduled from November 11 to 19, 2022, plans to pay tribute to four great names in cinema, in recognition of their brilliant careers. According to the organizers, the iconic Scottish actress Tilda Swinton, the great American filmmaker James Gray, the pioneer of Moroccan cinema, the director Farida Benlyazid, and the Indian superstar, Ranveer Singh, will receive the festival’s Gold Star. More details!
The 19th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival (FIFM), scheduled from November 11 to 19, 2022, plans to pay tribute to four great names in cinema, in recognition of their brilliant careers. According to the organizers, the iconic Scottish actress Tilda Swinton, the great American filmmaker James Gray, the pioneer of Moroccan cinema, the director Farida Benlyazid, and the Indian superstar, Ranveer Singh, will receive the festival’s Gold Star. More details!
Tilda Swinton: An extraordinary career
A unique actress in the world cinema landscape, Tilda Swinton has built one of the most prodigious and singular filmographies of recent decades, alternating roles in demanding auteur films and Hollywood blockbusters. Faithful to the filmmakers whose path she crosses, she was the muse of Derek Jarman and Luca Guadagnino and regularly collaborates with Jim Jarmusch, Wes Anderson and Joanna Hogg. Capable of all transformations, she crosses genres and characters, surprises and excels each time, and leads for more than 30 years an extraordinary career that makes her one of the most exciting figures of contemporary cinema.
About her tribute, she said: “I am very touched to receive this honor from the Marrakech Festival, which I love and admire deeply. It is a great joy to be back with my friends to celebrate this exceptional meeting of world cinema and the eternal complicity between cinephiles from all over the world, and to be back with this magnificent audience. I am deeply grateful to you”.
James Gray: A filmmaker must
For his part, the filmmaker James Gray said he was very pleased to receive the Gold Star Award. “I am also very pleased to present my film Armageddon Time to Moroccan festival-goers. It is a very personal film that not only reflects aspects of my childhood, but also looks to the future and portrays certain issues and injustices that persist in our world today. Thank you for recognizing these subjects, most of which are present in all my films, and for giving me such an honor,” he added. Discovered in the 90s with his first film, Little Odessa, which he directed at the age of 25, James Gray immediately established himself as one of the most gifted filmmakers of his generation. Author of several masterpieces such as “The Yards”, “We own the night” and “Two Lovers”, James Gray has built a place for himself on the border between independent cinema and studios.
Farida Belyazid: A true pioneer of Moroccan cinema
Every year, the FIFM pays tribute to a figure of Moroccan cinema. This year, the choice is made for the filmmaker Farida Belyazid. A true pioneer of Moroccan cinema, she has many achievements to her credit, which have made her a central figure in national cinema. She is the first Moroccan woman to start producing a film, an accomplished screenwriter who has written several classics such as “Dolls of Reeds”, Badis and “In Search of My Wife’s Husband”, and the director of a work crossed by the questions of spirituality, the place of the woman in the society and the search for justice and truth. A free and independent artist, Farida Belyazid has paved the way for many Moroccan women directors who have seen in the author of A Door to Heaven and Women’s Ruses, an inspiration and a model.
Ranveer Singh: Great Indian Actor That’
s not all! The IFFM will also pay tribute to the Indian star Ranveer Singh. A true phenomenon with a meteoric rise, this actor has shaken up Bollywood and is now one of the greatest Indian actors. A chameleon-like actor, he has particularly distinguished himself in Gully Boy, a milestone film in his career, where he plays an apprentice rapper from a disadvantaged neighborhood, or in Sanjay Leela Bhansali productions such as Bajirao Mastani, where he plays an 18th century emperor. Ranveer Singh is shaking up the codes of Indian cinema and showing a new way, that of a relaxed masculinity with communicative energy. “I am deeply honored to receive a tribute in recognition of my career, through this very special distinction, the Golden Star of the Marrakech Film Festival! To know that my work has transcended geographical and cultural boundaries and resonated in Africa is extremely gratifying,” he says.
“In Conversation with” 10 great names of the 7th art
This is one of the most eagerly awaited events at the FIFM. The “In Conversation with…” program returns for a series of intense and exciting exchanges with leading figures in world cinema. In Conversation with…” will be a series of discussions with artists who, in front of the Marrakech public, will generously share their vision and their practice of cinema, between brilliant demonstrations and tasty anecdotes. For this edition, the personalities who will come to meet the festival-goers are, according to the organizers, the great British actor Jeremy Irons, the talented and energetic French actress and director Julie Delpy, the influential and twice Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, the French filmmaker Julia Ducournau, 2nd woman to have won a Palme d’Or in the history of the Cannes Festival, the Bollywood superstar Ranveer Singh to whom the Festival will pay tribute, the American filmmaker and poet Jim Jarmusch, the now inescapable French actress Marina Foïs, the Swedish director Ruben Östlund, winner of 2 Palmes d’Or, the singular and rare French filmmaker Léos Carax and the Oscar-winning French-Lebanese composer Gabriel Yared.
Like every year, the FIFM pays tribute to a figure of Moroccan cinema. This year, the choice is made for the filmmaker Farida Belyazid.
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