According to a press communiqué received by the IFFM direction, this year, the jury of the 6th edition of the International Film Festival of Marrakech will be presided over by the filmmaker ROMAN POLANSKI.

The festival will pay tribute this year to Italian cinema by showing the diversity of its heritage and the creativity of its authors through the projection of some fifty films: "The Italian Preference", a true palette illustrating the history of Italian cinema from the 40s to our days.

A delegation of professionals, filmmakers, producers, actors and actresses will receive this tribute on Saturday 2nd December, 2006. 

ROMAN POLANSKI 
Director, actor, scriptwriter and producer
Of Polish parents, Roam Polanski grew up in Poland and did his studies at the national school of cinema in Lodz.
His full-length movie "The Pianist" received the Golden Palm at the Cannes Festival in 2003, 3 Oscars, best director, best actor, and best scriptwriter, 2 British Academy Film Awards, best film and best director, and in France 7 Caesars among which best film, best director and best actor.

DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY 
2005 – Oliver Twist
2002 – The Pianist
1999 – The Ninth Door
1994 – The Young girl and the Dead man
1992 - Brand Moons
1988 – Frantic
1977 – Tess
1976 – The Tenant
1974 – Chinatown
1973 – What?
1971 – Macbeth
1968 – Rosemary's Baby
1967 – Vampires' ball
1966 - Dead End
1965 – Repulsion
1962 – The Knife in Water 
 

THEATRE/OPERA PRODUCTIONS 
2006 – Doubt (Paris)
2004 – Vampires' Ball (Stuttgart, Hamburg)
2003 – Hedda Gabler (Paris)
1999 – Amadeus (Milan)
1997 – Vampires' ball (Vienna)
1981 – Amadeus (Warsaw, Paris)
1976 – Rigoletto (Munich)
1974 – Lulu (Spolète) 
 

The official selection of the 6th edition of the International Film Festival of Marrakech will be revealed at the beginning of November, 2006.