20TH edition NOVEMBER 24 TO DECEMBER 2, 2023
20th edition
November 24 to December 2, 2023
Jean-Claude Barny, a French director from Guadeloupe and Trinidad and Tobago, blends European auteur cinema with US entertainment. Self-taught, he began making films at sixteen by analyzing cinema. He co-directed the short film Putain de porte (1994), starring Vincent Cassel and Mathieu Kassovitz, later casting Kassovitz’s La Haine (1995). In 2003, he moved to Guadeloupe to make his first feature-length film, Nèg Maron (2005), which addressed the challenges facing Caribbean youth and drew 250,000 admissions. For television, he directed Tropiques amers (mini-series, 2007) and Rose et le Soldat (2014). His second feature, Le Gang des Antillais (2016), revisits the 1970s Martinican robber Loïc Lery. After directing Fanon, he began work on La Légende de Battling Siki.
Frantz Fanon has just been appointed chief medical officer at the Blida psychiatric hospital in Algeria. Soon after, the innovative methods and humanistic treatment he provides to Algerian patients attracts the wrath of his colleagues and the director of the institution. Fanon, however, is not a man to be stepped on. His determination and ideas generate appeal to the FLN and its leader, Abane Ramdane, who offers to join the cause. In a context in which tensions between the French army and FLN are becoming increasingly apparent, Fanon sounds like a traitor. With his wife Josie, he is caught in a vortex of violence that leads him to take up the cause of Algerian independence.
Director Jean-Claude Barny
Producer Sébastien Onomo, Louise Genis Cosserat, Adrien Chef, Paul Thiltges, Yanick Letourneau
Screenwriter Philippe Bernard, Jean-Claude Barny
Cinematographer Ariel Méthot
Production Designer Audrey Hernu
Editor Maxime Lahaie
Sound Eric Boisteau
Music Thibault Kientz-Agyeman
Color Color
Production Company Special Touch Studios, WebSpider Productions, Paul Thiltges Distributions, Peripheria Films
Distributor Pathé BC Afrique
Founded by His Majesty King Mohammed VI in July 2002, the Marrakech International Film Festival Foundation is a non-profit organization of public interest.
Presided over by His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid, the Foundation has as its primary objective the organisation of the Marrakech International Film Festival and any related events, all of which aim to encourage the creation, promotion, and distribution of works of cinema throughout the Kingdom of Morocco and around the globe.
Founded by His Majesty King Mohammed VI in July 2002, the Marrakech International Film Festival Foundation is a non-profit organization of public interest.
Presided over by His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Rachid, the Foundation has as its primary objective the organisation of the Marrakech International Film Festival and any related events, all of which aim to encourage the creation, promotion, and distribution of works of cinema throughout the Kingdom of Morocco and around the globe.