PARIS -- Stephen Frears' Mrs. Henderson Presents has been chosen to open the 2005 Marrakesh International Film Festival, and Italian writer-director Enrico Oldioni's 13 dici a tavola (13 at the Table) will close the festival, organizers said Wednesday. The fifth edition of the festival will run Nov. 11-19, five days rather than the usual seven. The event, held under the patronage of King Mohammed VI of Morocco, will feature 124 international films, nearly doubling last year's count. Organizers Le Public Systeme Cinema, which also runs the American Film Festival at Deauville, France, called the Marrakesh fest an attempt to bring together "the cinemas of developed and developing countries."...
- 10/26/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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