Martin Scorsese will not attend the Marrakesh Film Festival

American director Martin Scorsese has canceled his attendance at the Marrakesh International Film Festival, where he was due to attend as a sponsor of its aspect of training new talents of the seventh art.

As sources from the organization informed EFE, the cancellation from the 81-year-old director It’s for personal reasons.

Scorsese participated in Moroccan festival on five occasions, and in 2018 he was in charge of awarding an honorary award to the actor Robert de Niro, with whom he collaborated several times.

In this, the twentieth edition, he was supposed to be the godfather Atlas workshops, dedicated to talent development rising African and Arab directors.

The festival started this Friday with a gala event honoring the actor Dane Mads Mikkelsen and the jury chaired by actress Jessica Chanstain was also presented.

Scorsese is one of the most great and influential directors of contemporary cinemawith films such as “Taxi Driver”, “Raging Bull”, “The Last Temptation of Christ”, “One of Ours”, “Gangsters of New York”, “The Color of Money”, “The Wolf of Wall Street”. ” or “The Departed”, the film for which he won the Oscar for best director in 2007.

He just released his latest movie, “Moon Killers”based on the true story of the massacre of the Osage Indian Nation in NOW.