“Don’t Let the Sun Go Up on Me” and “Chapa 1000” claimed the top development and postproduction prizes at this year’s Atlas Workshops , which ran from Nov. 30 – Dec. 5 as part of the Marrakech Film Festival .

Winner of the top award, “Don’t Let the Sun Go Up on Me” walked away with a €25,000 ($26,409) post-production grant. Directed by Asmae El Moudir , the film retraces the life of Fatimazahra, a young woman born with a rare genetic disorder that made exposure to sunlight deadly. She lived a parallel, nocturnal existence and founded a community known as the Children of the Moon. Following her death in 2023, the group traveled to Norway’s Lofoten Islands to live beneath the polar night, seeking a world where darkness offers safety.

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