Director Laila Marrakchi on Female-Driven Migrant Drama Strawberries in Cannes:’These Women Are So Strong, So Capable, So Courageous’

'Strawberries' is bowing in Cannes' Un Certain Regard

By Nick Vivarelli

Nick Vivarelli

International Correspondent

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Paris-based, Casablanca-born director Laila Marrakchi – whose first feature “Marock” screened in Cannes in 2005 – is back in Un Certain Regard with female-driven migrant drama “Strawberries” about a group of Moroccan seasonal laborers hired to pick strawberries in Spain who decide to stand up to their abusive employers.

After portraying Morocco’s upper classes in “Marock” and “Rock the Casbah” (2013) – and then veering into TV by directing episodes of Damien Chazelle’s “The Eddy” for Netflix and of several French TV series including “The Bureau” – Marrakchi now turns her eye to the true story of young women who leave Morocco for a strawberry farm in Southern Spain in hopes of providing a better life for their families, only to contend with harassment and inhumane living conditions.

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