Moroccan-born French director Yasmine Benkiran, whose feature debut “Queens” opened at Venice and is playing at the Marrakech Film Festival, is now developing two ambitious features. &#…
“Queens,” which was developed at the Atlas Workshops, the industry sidebar running alongside the Marrakech Film Festival, is a rare Moroccan film weaving adventure and genre with strong female protagonists.
“Asmahan was an amazing actress and singer whose fame was compared with that of Marilyn Monroe and she also died in tragic circumstances,” said Benkiran. “Through Zeyna’s eyes, the film will shed behind the scenes light of the flamboyant Egyptian film world of the 1950’s, which was more liberated than Hollywood at that time,” continued the filmmaker.
While this project is still in early stage and will necessitate a fairly large budget, Benkiran is developing another fantasy-filled adventure film set on a cult beach called Dahomey which was ravaged by a tsunami. “Science fiction, action, fantasy, horror films can also be political, not just social dramas,” she said. “Queens,” for example, talks about the limits of Morocco’s patriarchal rules through the story of a trio of rebellious female outlaws – a mother, her daughter and a young girl – who drive through the desert with local police forces on their trail.
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