An actress holds a Schiaparelli purse while posing for a photo on the red carpet during 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Egyptian actress Youssra poses for a photo on the red carpet during the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
An actress poses for a photo on the red carpet during the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
A couple poses for a photo on the red carpet during the opening ceremony of the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
British filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr. gestures while wearing a pro-Palestinian pin during the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Filipino-Australian filmmaker James J. Robinson wears a pro-Palestinian pin representing the pre-1948 map while posing for a photo on the red carpet during 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir poses for a photo on the red carpet during the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
A couple poses for a photo on the red carpet during the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Moroccan actress Fatima Hernadi, also known as Raouia, holds her daughter, while wearing a caftan, as they poses for a photo on the red carpet during the opening ceremony of the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Nabila Kilani poses for a photo on the red carpet while wearing a caftan during the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
A moroccan actor poses for a photo wearing a traditional outfit on the red carpet during the opening ceremony of the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
A Moroccan actor wearing a traditional outfit poses for a photo on the red carpet during the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Moroccan director Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloïsi poses for a photo on the red carpet during the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
An actor poses for a photo on the red carpet during the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
An actress poses for a photo on the red carpet during the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Egyptian actress Mona Zaki poses for a photo on the red carpet during the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
An actress poses for a photo on the red carpet during the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
A film crew poses for a photo on the red carpet during the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
Members of a film crew pose for a photo on the red carpet during the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
An actress poses for a photo on the red carpet during the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
An actress poses for a photo on the red carpet during the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
French actress Virginie Ledoyen poses for a photo on the opening ceremony of the 22nd Marrakech Film Festival, in Morocco, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
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6:33 AM on Thursday, December 11
By MOSA'AB ELSHAMY
MARRAKECH, Morocco (AP) — The carpet outside the 2025 edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival was unfurled in its usual red, but the stars who walked across it shimmered in every color.
Actors and filmmakers drifted down its length in embroidered velvet robes and delicately cut black lace dresses, amid the sounds of camera shutters and microphones humming.
Some ensembles nodded explicitly to the region: hand-stitched caftans and robes with hems that followed the geometry of North African embroidery. Youssra, one of Egypt’s best-known actors, carried a black sequined, pearl-trimmed clutch emblazoned with her name across the front, recognizable to audiences all over the Middle East.
Others went crisp and relied on an austere palette of black and white to make their statement. And woven through were quiet gestures of political intent. Clutches patterned like keffiyehs, pins worn close to the heart — small but unmistakable signals of solidarity with Palestinians at a festival on the edge of a region in conflict.
The images that follow push past standard red-carpet fare, focusing on textures, silhouettes and accessories to show how style took shape at one of the Middle East and North Africa’s major film gatherings.
This year’s festival — whose guests included jury president Bong Joon Ho, Jafar Panahi and Anya Taylor-Joy — concluded Saturday.
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