Scottish performer and producer Tilda Swinton will preside over the Jury of the 18th edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival (FIFM), which will be held from November 29 to December 7, 2019, organizers have announced. «It is my honor to serve the exceptional festival of Marrakesh as president of the Jury this year», said Tilda Swinton, quoted in a press release. «The state of Cinema knows no boundary and the prospect of joining with my comrades from around our planet to discover and celebrate work from all its continents is a privilege and joy for which I am sincerely grateful and to which I look forward immensely», she added. Tilda Swinton started making films with the director Derek Jarman in 1985 with Caravaggio. They made seven more films together, including The Last of England, The Garden, War Requiem, Edward II (for which she won the Best Actress award at the 1991 Venice International Film Festival) and Wittgenstein, before Jarman's death in 1994. She gained wider international recognition in 1992 with her portrayal of Orlando, based on the novel by Virginia Woolf under the direction of Sally Potter. She has established rewarding ongoing filmmaking relationships with Jim Jarmusch - including Only Lovers Left Alive (shot in Morocco) and The Dead Don't Die, Joel and Ethan Coen, Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin) and Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love, A Bigger Splash) with whom she most recently collaborated on Suspiria. She received both the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress of 2008 for Tony Gilroy's Michael Clayton.
