Ava DuVernay, Justine Triet & Alfonso Cuarón Among 18 Filmmakers & Actors Set For Buzzy Marrakech In-Conversation Program

The Marrakech International Film Festival has unveiled a high-powered in conversations program for its upcoming 21st edition gathering 18 leading directors, actors, scriptwriters, and producers.

They include U.S. director and screenwriter Ava Du Vernay (Origin, 13th), French Oscar winner Justine Triet (Anatomy of a Fall) and U.S director Tim Burton, who is currently riding high on the success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

Speakers also include Walter Salles and Mohammed Rasoulof who are in the middle of buzzy Oscars campaigns for their Best International Feature Film contenders I’m Still Here and The Seed Of The Sacred Fig.

Canadian director and screenwriter David Cronenberg and U.S. actor director Sean Penn, who are being feted by the festival with career awards this year, will also participate.

The line-up also features U.S. director and screenwriter Todd Haynes, Australian director and screenwriter Justin Kurzel, director and screenwriter François Ozon, UK actor Gemma Arterton, Russian director and screenwriter Kirill Serebrennikov; Mauritanian director and screenwriter Abderrahmane Sissako.

Moroccan filmmakers Alaa Eddine Aljem, Yasmine Benkiran, Ismaël El Iraki, and Kamal Lazraq will be in conversation about their first films.

The Marrakech International Film Festival runs from November 29 to December 7.