New films by Morocco’s Asmae El Moudir, whose “The Mother of All Lies” won best documentary at Cannes and won Marrakech’s Étoile d’Or, Lebanon’s Mounia Akl, whose “Costa Brava, Lebanon” won awards at Toronto and London, and Jordan’s Amjad Al Rasheed, whose “Inshallah a Boy” won awards at Cannes, Rotterdam and Camerimage, are among 28 projects selected for the 8th edition of the Atlas Workshops, which is the industry section of the Marrakech Film Festival .

This year’s edition also features the most recent films by Palestinian directors Scandar Copti (who won the Étoile d’Or at Marrakech last year for “Happy Holidays”) and Maha Haj (“Personal Affairs,” “Mediterranean Fever”), as well as an adaptation of Augustin Sondé Coulibaly’s 1982 novel “Les Dieux délinquants” by Burkinabe director B

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