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They will be among 82 films from 31 countries showcased at the festival \u2013 running from November 28 to December 6 \u2013 across the Official Competition, Gala Screenings, Horizons section, the 11th Continent, Moroccan Panorama, Young Audiences and Families sidebars. (scroll down for full selection)<\/p>\n
The Official Competition will feature 14 first and second feature films compete for the \u00c9toile d\u2019or, with the jury this year headed by filmmaker Bong Joon-ho<\/a>.<\/p>\n Highlights of the competition include the world premiere of Meryem Benm\u2019Barek<\/a>\u2019s psychological thriller Behind the Palm Trees, exploring the class relations and social domination inherited from the colonial pas,t and the international premiere of Australian photographer James J. Robinson<\/a> First Light<\/a>, a visually striking moral drama in which a Filipino nun questions her…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gus Van Sant\u2019s Dead Man\u2019s Wire has been unveiled as the opening film of the 22nd Marrakech International Film Festival, with Annemarie Jacir\u2019s Palestine 36 closing the Moroccan event. They will be among 82 films from 31 countries showcased at the festival \u2013 running from November 28 to December 6 \u2013 across the Official Competition, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2146044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2146043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/\u2018Dead-Mans-Wire-To-Open-2025-Marrakech-With-82-Film-Selection.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2146045,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146043\/revisions\/2146045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2146044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}