Home to one of the biggest physical studio lots in the world by area, Morocco can lay claim to being the Arab’s world top location destination, attracting more than $40 million worth of production in 2017, estimates Sarim. He also sits on MENA’s biggest production fund. And not long after Dubai announced it was postponing its film festival for at least another year came news that The Marrakesh Film Festival was returning under the artistic direction of Christoph Terhechte, former head of Berlin’s avantgarde Forum section.