Morocco’s International Animation Film Festival Of Meknes Kicks Off With High-Profile Guest List

Works in Progress

• France’s most successful non-franchise director of animated films, Michel Ocelot, will present a works in progress session for his upcoming film Pharaon, le sauvage et la maîtresse des roses.
• Producer Malika Brahmi, will tease her next feature film, Adam and the Magic Cloud.

Master Classes

• Cartoon Saloon founder Tomm Moore will host a master class and screening for his Oscar-nominated film Wolfwalkers.
• Florence Miailhe will screen her Annecy jury distinction-winner and César-nominated film The Crossing, followed by a masterclass.

Screenings

• Director Alex Kronemer will present his latest feature Lamya’s Poem, which screened in Annecy’s feature competition in 2021.
• Ayumu Watanabe’s Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko was nominated by the Annies as one of last year’s best independent animated features.
• Winner of the 2021 Annecy Contrechamp Jury prize, Archipelago will be screened with director Félix Dufour-Laperrière in attendance.
• Carlo Vogele will host a screening of Icarus and the Minotaur.
• The Island will screen with director Anca Damian in attendance, before heading to Annecy’s feature competition in June.
• The Summit of the Gods producer Didier Brunner will present Patrick Imbert’s most recent feature.
• Producer Ron Dyens will be present to host a screening of Annecy jury winner and Golden Globe-nominated My Sunny Maad by Michaela Pavlatova.

Industry

• This year’s FICAM will host the first-ever Moroccan Animation Film Forum. Among other topics discussed at the forum, attendees will begin planning the establishment of a Moroccan animation film market.
• Annecy and Haute-Savoie are hosting a series of animated cinema workshops.
• FICAM will host five days of workshops on pre-production for documentaries, screenwriting, and storyboarding.