The eighth version of the Atlas Workshops highlights a brand new technology of African filmmakers growing function movies and documentaries throughout the continent.
The Marrakech Worldwide Movie Competition has unveiled its picks for the 2025 Atlas Workshops, with vital concentrate on movies from the African continent.
Now in its eighth yr, the Atlas Workshops is an trade and talent-development programme which creates an area for trade between worldwide professionals and regional skills.
The participant choice follows a name for functions for initiatives in improvement and movies in post-production by filmmakers from the Arab world or the African continent who’re growing or directing their first, second, or third feature-length narrative, documentary, or animated movie.
A number of African movies made the reduce for this yr’s lineup, together with:
Initiatives In Improvement
CHAPA 100 – Ique Langa (Mozambique)
2nd fiction function
LES DIEUX DÉLINQUANTS – Boubacar Sangaré (Burkina Faso)
1st fiction function
LAST COW – Amil Shivji (Tanzania)
2nd fiction function
VANDA – Kamy Lara (Angola)
1st fiction function
Movies In Capturing Or Publish-Manufacturing
GOMA ENOUGH IS ENOUGH (GOMA TROP C’EST TROP) – Elisé Sawasawa (Democratic Republic Of Congo)
1st function documentary
VAGABONDS – Amartei Armar (Ghana)
1st fiction function
Collaborating initiatives and movies obtain tailored assist—each on-line and in Marrakech—by way of consultations on scriptwriting, manufacturing, distribution, modifying, and scoring, in line with their particular person wants and manufacturing stage. Contributors additionally obtain mentorship by way of an in depth artistic lab, and movie groups compete for money prizes
As well as, the initiatives and movies are showcased at a co-production market, the place filmmakers have the chance to satisfy one-on-one with worldwide professionals to seek out co-producers, gross sales brokers, or different companions.
The 2025 Atlas Workshops will maintain from thirtieth November to 4th December, 2025.