THE MARRAKECH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

The Marrakech Short Film Festival

Born from the crossroads of trade routes, Marrakech has been a hub of storytelling and creativity for hundreds of years. Abounding with iconic shooting locations, from the mystical Medina to its palm-filled hinterland, cinema is a crucial thread woven into the city’s cultural fabric. The advent of COVID19 and the resulting closure of cinemas has left local audiences with a thirst for the therapeutic pleasure of film-going.

SECTIONS & AWARDS

The festival’s program consists of the four official competitions

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BELARJ PRIZE (BEST DIRECTOR)

Among the Moroccan selection, each year the MARRAKECHsFF's jury chooses the best director according to their criteria.
The winner gets the chance to be considered for the low budget program of the upcoming year.
The MARRAKECHsFF in its vision to built a hub for short movies industry, aims to maintain a productive link with its alumni and to built a network among our festival's filmmakers.

BEHJA PRIZE (BEST ACTOR)

Among the Moroccan selection, each year the MARRAKECHsFF's jury chooses the best according to their criteria.
This category, the MARRAKECHsFF aims to promote to help promising and your actors and actresses to get known .
The MARRAKECHsFF in its vision to built a hub for short movies industry, aims to maintain a productive link with its alumni and to built a network among our festival's filmmakers.

NAKHIL PRIZE (BEST PICTURE)

Among the Moroccan selection, each year the MARRAKECHsFF's jury chooses the best picture and cinematography according to their criteria.
The winner gets the chance to be considered for the low budget program of the upcoming year. The winner gets the chance to be part of the MARRAKECHsFF's BEST OF program, for various screenings outside the festival's week activities.
The MARRAKECHsFF in its vision to built a hub for short movies industry, aims to maintain a productive link with its alumni and to built a network among our festival's filmmakers.

COUP DE COEUR PRIZE

Among the international, the MARRAKECHsFF chooses one short movie that echoes the best with the public and the festival's vision.
The winner gets the chance to be part of the MARRAKECHsFF's BEST OF program, for various screenings outside the festival's week activities.

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Fading Candle

SYNOPSIS A young woman's touch on a wedding scarf triggers a flashback to a forced

Aicha

SYNOPSISA 17-year-old girl struggles with an emotionally distant mother as her life takes a tragic

Sin Igharassen (Two Ways)

SYNOPSIS 1975. The story of two men in the Souss region of Morocco, at a

Mesk Ellil

SYNOPSIS Un couple en détresse, victime d’une crevaison, frappe à la porte d’un vieil homme

Behind the Curtain’s Edge

SYNOPSISAs the curtains rise on a new Hamlet adaptation, an actor transitions to embody Ophelia

Paradise Garden

SYNOPSISNaima lives with her son Ahmed in a Moroccan bidonville. One day, she receives a

65 Days

SYNOPSIS A café waiter spent 65 days working under a harsh and greedy café owner.

Quo Vadis, Meryem!

SYNOPSIS Shaken by the visit of a dying friend, Meryem fights to bridge the icy

With the Wind

SYNOPSIS An old florist shuts his shop down hoping for a freedom that no longer

Investigation

SYNOPSIS When a cat and a dog stumble upon a chicken leg in the alley,

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