Marrakech IFF, an interview with director and screenwriter François Ozon

Acclaimed French director François Ozon, whose incredibly versatile and prolific career is the focus of one of the captivating Conversations curated by the 21st Marrakech International Film Festival, sheds light on what has guided him through his formidable, and formidably multifaceted career since his first short films and his debut feature “Sitcom” (1998). The author of “Under the Sand” (2000), “Swimming Pool” (2003), “Potiche” (2010), and “By the Grace of God” (2019), to name but a few, explains how he relies on his instincts and how he knew very early on he wanted to be a filmmaker.

Ozon, a regular at Cannes, Berlin, and the European Film Awards, winner of the Golden Shell in San Sebastián for In the House (2012), reminisces about the shooting of 8 Women (2002) and his classes with Éric Rohmer, whose awareness of production-related matters he ret