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A handful of Hollywood talent have joined South Korean auteur Bong Joon Ho on the jury at this year\u2019s Marrakech International Film Festival.<\/p>\n
Eight leading figures from four continents will decide on the prize winners at the Moroccan film fest, led by jury head and Oscar winner Bong (Parasite<\/em>). With him will be American actress Jenna Ortega, best known for roles in Wednesday <\/em>and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice<\/em>, British-Argentinian star of Dune: Part Two<\/em>, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga<\/em> and The Queen\u2019s Gambit <\/em>Anya Taylor-Joy, as well as Past Lives<\/em> and Materialists <\/em>director Celine Song.<\/p>\n More from The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Also on the jury for the 22nd edition, announced Wednesday, is Brazilian director\u00a0Karim A\u00efnouz, who won over international audiences with\u00a0The Invisible Life of Eur\u00eddice Gusm\u00e3o<\/em>, Moroccan filmmaker\u00a0Hakim Belabbes, a key figure in intimate, memory-based cinema and French director\u00a0Julia Ducournau, Palme d\u2019Or winner for\u00a0Titane<\/em>.<\/p>\n They will preside on the jury alongside Iranian actor-director\u00a0Payman Maadi, who rose to international fame in Asghar Farhadi\u2019s\u00a0A Separation<\/em>.<\/p>\n The Marrakech Film Festival will take place in Morocco from Nov. 28 to Dec. 6. The award winners will be announced at the closing ceremony on Dec. 6.<\/p>\n Among the lineup at this year\u2019s fest include key award contenders: Gus Van Sant\u2019s Dead Man\u2019s Wire <\/em>with Bill Skarsgard is set to open, followed by Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein <\/em>and Chloe Zhao\u2019s Hamnet<\/em>.<\/p>\n The selection features 14 entries bidding for best international feature film at the Oscars, including My Father\u2019s Shado<\/em>w (U.K.),\u00a0Palestine 36<\/em>\u00a0(Palestine)\u00a0The President\u2019s Cake<\/em>\u00a0(Iraq) and The<\/em>\u00a0Voice of Hind Rajab\u00a0<\/em>(Tunisia), which boasts Brad Pitt and Joaquin Phoenix among its producers.<\/p>\n Best of The Hollywood Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for THR’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/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.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A handful of Hollywood talent have joined South Korean auteur Bong Joon Ho on the jury at this year\u2019s Marrakech International Film Festival. Eight leading figures from four continents will decide on the prize winners at the Moroccan film fest, led by jury head and Oscar winner Bong (Parasite). With him will be American actress […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2166369,"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":[25172],"tags":[356677,308066,344876,34395,312498,415927,415961,415960],"class_list":["post-2166367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-anya-taylor-joy","tag-bong-joon-ho","tag-celine-song","tag-hollywood-reporter","tag-jenna-ortega","tag-marrakech-film-festival","tag-moroccan-film","tag-prize-winners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jenna-Ortega-Anya-Taylor-Joy-and-Celine-Song-Join-Bong-Joon.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166367","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=2166367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166370,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2166367\/revisions\/2166370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2166369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2166367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2166367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2166367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}