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The Marrakech International Film Festival is to honour Jodie Foster, Guillermo del Toro, Raouya and Hussein Fahmi at its upcoming 22nd edition, which runs from November 28-December 6.

Jodie Foster will present her latest film, Vie Privée (A Private Life) by director Rebecca Zlotowski, at Marrakech. Foster earned two best actress Academy Awards for her roles in The Accused and The Silence Of The Lambs, while her role in Nyad brought her her most recent nomination for best supporting actress. 

Director Guillermo del Toro will introduce his new film Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Christoph Waltz and Mia Goth. Del Toro has won three Oscars  – two for The Shape Of Water, and one for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. 

Marrakech will also pay tribute to Moroccan actress Raouya who has starred in films by directors including Narjiss Nejjar, Noureddine Lakhmari and Laïla Marrakchi. Raouya also appeared in films such as Claude Lelouch’s And Now… Ladies And Gentlemen, Hugues Martin and Sandra Martin’s Djinns, and Xavier Beauvois’s Of Gods And Men.

The festival will also honour Egyptian actor, director, producer and Cairo International Film Festival president Hussein Fahmi, whose acting credits include Hassan El Imam’s Watch Out For ZouZou, Said Marzouk’s The Guilty and Youssef Chahine’s Alexandria: Again And Forever. Alongside his acting career, Fahmi taught directing at the Cairo Academy of Arts for 12 years and directed the Cairo International Film Festival from 1998 to 2001, a leadership role he took up again in 2022.

In a statement, Marrakech said: “Jodie Foster, Guillermo del Toro, Raouya, and Hussein Fahmi are artists from different backgrounds, each of whom embodies in their own way the universal power of cinema. With these tributes, Marrakech reaffirms its role as a crossroads of cultures and talents, a place where world cinema converges and where the voices that shape the collective imagination are heard.”

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