Marrakech Film Festival (FIFM) to be held on December 6 through 12

The fourth edition of the Marrakech Film Festival (FIFM) will be held on December 6 through 12 in this Moroccan Southern Town, a FIFM communiqué sent to The Moroccan news agency MAP said.

The festival features 14 international movies from Europe, the Two Americas, the Maghreb, Africa, Asia and the Arab states.

The jury will be presided by director Sir Alan Parker, while the FIFM has up to date nominated for honours cineastes Claudia Cardinale (Italy), Sean Connery (Scotland) and Youssef Chahine (Egypt). The festival will also show several other films, including a score of Moroccan movies made the four past years. Indian cinema will be given special honour and some 10 movies made during the past 40 years are featured.

The Marrakech Film Festival goal is to reveal new talents by presenting feature films of quality which contribute to the evolution of the motion picture arts and to increase the Moroccan audience for international cinema through an extensive presentation of new innovative films, FIFM web site said.

The festival also celebrates the cinema of the past, present and future through retrospectives, tributes and "carte blanche" to leading figures of cinema and provides a relaxed and comfortable setting for useful contacts between Moroccan and foreign industry people, in the renowned resort of Marrakech.