Rodrigo Teixeira touches down at the Marrakech Film Festival this weekend to show first footage of Lebanese bank heist drama Wolves by filmmaking duo Rami Kodeih and Nora Mariana in its Atlas Workshops project event.

Set against the backdrop of the real-life collapse of Lebanon’s banking system in 2019, the triller marks Teixeira’s first foray into the Middle East and it is unlikely to be his last.

The Brazilian Oscar-nominated I’m Still Here producer spent the previous weekend in Qatar as a guest of the inaugural Doha Film Festival ’s high-profile Industry Days event.

Teixeira was one of the speakers at the event at which the Gulf state’s Film Committee unveiled a new 50% film rebate and partnerships with Neon, Sony , Miramax , Department M and Company 3.

“It w

See Full Page