CANNES: Leila Marrakchi’s “Strawberries” marks the Moroccan filmmaker’s return to the Cannes Film Festival, 21 years after “Marock” premiered in the Un Certain Regard section in 2005. Marrakchi returns to the very same section with a markedly different cinematic gaze, shaped by questions of displacement and laboring people’s fragile negotiations of survival.

"It's a sad form of new colonialism," says auteur Laïla Marrakchi about the social and #MeToo issues she explores in her Un Certain Regard film. "I want to show these women who…

Paris-based, Casablanca-born director Laila Marrakchi discusses her female-driven migrant drama 'Strawberries' bowing in Cannes' Un Certain Regard

Premiering in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, Laïla Marrakchi's 'Strawberries' aims to shake up the often formulaic narrative of exploited migrant labor.

CANNES: Leila Marrakchi’s “Strawberries” marks the Moroccan filmmaker’s return to the Cannes Film Festival, 21 years after “Marock” premiered in the Un Certain Regard section in…