Marrakech festival spotlights tensions animating Morocco’s movie industry

After the movie “Cabo Negro” screened at the Marrakech International Film Festival this week, organizers anticipating backlash whisked its crew away and cancelled screenwriter-director Abdellah Taia’s scheduled post-film Q&A.

The film — selected as one of the festival’s 70 features and approved by authorities to be shot in Morocco — is a queer tale of two young men spending a summer on a beach in the north of the…