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Jeff Nichols To Mentor Emerging Arab & African Directors At Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops + Project Line-Up

U.S. director Jeff Nichols has been named as patron of the Marrakech Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops, as incubator unveils 2024 selection.

Films in production or post-production include In the Shadows of Good Fortune by Nigerian director Babatunde Apalowo, whose All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White played in the Berlinale’s Panorama line-up in 2023. The Atlas Workshops will unveil the first images of two films that participated in previous editions while in development: Zamo Mkhwanazi’s Laundry(South Africa) and Meryem Benm’Barek’s Behind the Palm Trees(Morocco), which were selected for the platform in 2018 and 2022 respectively. Project line-up for the seventh Atlas Workshops (* denotes first film)Projects in Development Alicante, Lina Soualem (Algeria) The Beastly One, Walid Messnaoui (Morocco) * Flowers of the Dead, Nuno Miranda (Cape Verde) * Ici Repose, Moly Kane (Senegal) * Lucky Girl, Linda Lô (Senegal) * The Orange Grove, Murad Abu Eisheh (Jordan) * Princesse Téné, Fabien Dao (Burkina Faso) * Pure Madness(Pure Folie), Inès Arsi (Tunisia) | Doc * Samir, The Accidental Spy, – Charlotte Rabate (Syria) * The Shelter, Talal Selhami (Morocco) The Source, Mouloud Ouyahia (Algeria) * Your Turn, 2023, Cynthia Sawma (Lebanon) *

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