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Sean Penn, David Cronenberg and Late Great Moroccan Star Naïma Elmcherqui Set for Marrakech Film Festival Career Honors
Sean Penn, David Cronenberg, and late Great Moroccan star Naïma Elmcherqui are set for Marrakech Film Festival career honors.
Sean Penn, David Cronenberg and late great Moroccan actor Naïma Elmcherqui are set to be celebrated with career tributes by the Marrakech International Film Festival. After becoming a household name during the 1960s and 70s working with Moroccan theatre director and dramatist Tayeb Seddiki she soared on the big-screen in movies such as Souheil Ben Barka’s “Blood Wedding” (1977), which was Morocco’s first submission for the international Oscar; Mohamed Abderrahman Tazi’s female empowerment drama “Badis” (1989); and, more recently Mohamed Mouftakir’s “The Fall of Apple Trees,” her final film role, for which Elmcherqui won the best actress prize at Sweden’s Malmö Arab Film Festival. It will also be a first for Cronenberg, whose vast filmography of edgy films such as “Videodrome,” “Dead Ringers,” “A History of Violence,” “eXistenZ,” “Cosmopolis,” and “Maps to the Stars” – to name a few – have made him an undisputed cult master, was recently in Cannes with “The Shrouds” about a widower who invents technology to see inside his late wife’s grave.
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