Cinemas in Marrakech

Cinemas in Marrakech

Marrakech has had a long association with cinemas, be it by way of its popular Film Festival where it has felicitated many big weights of world cinema or by way of its stunning landscape, which has long drawn many leading filmmakers in search of stunning set locations to Marrakech and the surrounding countryside. To know more about cinemas in Marrakech, keep reading.

For the film buffs visiting the city, they can catch a show of the latest Hollywood blockbuster at the Colisee (tel: (044) 448 893) on boulevard Mohammed Zerktouni. Another major cinema hall in Marrakech is the Institut Français, on route de la Targa, Djebel Guéliz (tel: (044) 446 930), which shows mainly French-language films.

During the annual Marrakech International Film Festival (website: www.festivalmarrakech.wanadoo.ma) that takes place in November, a number of stars from the Arab world and Hollywood descend on the red carpet here.

Various films shot in Marrakech

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much was shot here in the 1950s
Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) was shot here toevoke the biblical Holy Land.
Gillies MacKinnon shot in Marrakech to produce a faithful reproduction of Esther Freud's novel Hideous Kinky in his 1999 film adaptation of the book.

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