Celine Song, Anya Taylor-Joy & Jenna Ortega Among Names Added To Bong Joon Ho’s Marrakech Film Festival Jury
- Leslie
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Client: Bong Joon Ho – Director
Celine Song, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Jenna Ortega are among the high-profile names that have been added to this year’s Marrakech Film Festival jury alongside Parasite filmmaker Bong Joon Ho.
Also joining the jury are Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz, Moroccan filmmaker Hakim Belabbes, Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau, and Iranian actor and director Payman Maadi. Director Bong is the jury president.
This year’s event runs from November 28 to December 6. The jury awards the Étoile d’Or to one of the first and second feature-length films in the international competition.
Earlier this month, away from the international competition, Marrakech named Cannes Palme d’Or-winning Romanian director Cristian Mungiu as the 2025 patron of the Marrakech International Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops.
Created in 2018, the Atlas Workshops are the heart of the Atlas Programs, Marrakech’s recently created banner gathering all the professional initiatives supported by the festival foundation.
As the patron of the workshops, Mungiu will mentor the 28 projects in this year’s selection, with their directors known as the “Class of Cristian Mungiu.”
This year’s selection of Atlas projects spans 12 projects in development, 10 films of which are shooting or in post-production; five Moroccan fiction features are in development in the Atlas Close-Ups sidebar, and one Moroccan feature is nearing completion and seeking a festival premiere in the Atlas Film Showcase section.
Additionally, the workshops’ Atlas Station 2025 sidebar, which is billed as a springboard for young Moroccan producers and directors, will support seven emerging Moroccan film professionals as well as four short films.