The toniest screening at last year’s Marrakech Film Festival happened off-site.

The jury president arrived in Morocco with a rough cut of his latest film, which, as luck would have it, starred another juror. With the day’s screenings and deliberations behind them — and months before the finished version would make its world premiere — Luca Guadagnino welcomed Andrew Garfield to a discreet hotel showing of “After the Hunt.”

This year’s edition brings that clubby informality squarely into the spotlight. The festival’s longtime president Melita Toscan du Plantier (who is also a producer) has once again assembled a powerhouse jury, presided over by Bong Joon-ho, the Oscar-winning director of “Parasite,” with Anya Taylor-Joy , Jenna Ortega , Celine Song, Julia Ducournau, Karim Aïnouz, H

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