A flagship program of the Marrakech International Film Festival, the In Conversation With… series gives audiences the chance to meet some of the biggest names in cinema from around the world. This year, ten celebrated names will open up to the audience and share their inspirational stories with the world.
Ten leading cinema figures hailing from five continents are expected in Marrakech this year to take part in the In Conversation With… program. In front of Festival audiences, actors, directors, screenwriters and producers are invited to share their vision and professional practice, all mixed in with tasty anecdotes and impromptu conversations.
The conversations are sure to be rich and exciting with this year’s guests who include: charismatic Australian actor and director Simon Baker; talented Moroccan director Faouzi Bensaïdi, to whom the Festival pays tribute this year; free-spirited and audacious French director Bertrand Bonello; Willem Dafoe, the US actor with a legendary filmography; influential Indian filmmaker and producer Anurag Kashyap; singular Japanese director Naomi Kawase; magnetic Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, who will receive the Festival’s Étoile d’or; intense Danish-American actor and director Viggo Mortensen; chameleonic Scottish actor Tilda Swinton; and multi-award-winning, widely respected Russian director and screenwriter Andrey Zvyagintsev.
