Euronews Culture reports from the Marrakech Film Festival in Morocco, one of the largest in the Middle East and North Africa. As it celebrates its 21st edition, the week-long event is increasingly making its presence felt, well beyond its borders.
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00:00I want to see cinema that provokes me.
00:26I want to see cinema that doesn't try to be tidy.
00:30I want to see cinema that is taking big risks.
00:33I want to see cinema that can be not perfect, but alive, I would say.
00:39I don't want to see the cinema that reacts.
00:45I don't want to see the cinema, or I don't want to champion the cinema that somehow puts
00:51me in the same place where I was before the movie.
00:57I think just integrity, truth, a creative vision, moving performances, interesting storytelling,
01:10or simple storytelling.
01:12You never know, but you know when a movie really grabs you and it teaches you something.
01:18Movies can be so many things, they can be profound, they can be heartbreaking.
01:22That's what is so magical about this industry and what we make.
01:32Oh gosh, I'm looking for soul, heart, originality, and you know, some beautiful heart.
01:40And heart.
01:43It's always nice to feel the vibe of new things, and so I live in a bubble in England
01:49or America, and I see things, but when you're working you don't really see that much.
01:53You kind of go into your own sort of hermetically sealed world.
01:57So it's like coming to something like this, you get a bit more of a sense and learn a
02:01bit more, so that's why I'm here.