Martin Scorsese will head up the jury of the Marrakech Film Festival feature film jury when the annual event takes place in the Moroccan city later this year, The Hollywood Reporter said.

It’s shaping up to be a busy month for the director, who will premiere his latest feature, awards season drama The Wolf of Wall Street, on Nov. 14.

“I’m very happy to be this year’s jury president,” said Scorsese in a statement. “I have made two films in Morocco, during which time I came to admire the spirit of the Moroccan people and the beauty of their culture. I am eager to discover the movies coming from all around the world to this unique festival.”

Scorsese filmed The Last Temptation of Christ in the country in 1988 and Kundun at the Atlas Film Studios in Ouarzazate in 1995.

He previously attended the festival in 2007 when he presented The Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio and inaugurated the master class program at the festival, and in 2005 when the festival organized a career tribute for the Oscar-winning director.

The festival will take place Nov. 29–Dec. 7

The Attack, a drama centered on the aftermath of a suicide bombing and its impact on an Arab surgeon living in Israel, won top honors -- the Golden Star for best film -- at last year’s Marrakech International Film Festival.

The competition jury, headed by president John Boorman and including such industry VIPs as Gemma Arterton and James Gray, picked the politically-charged drama from director Ziad Doueiri, which was based on the novel by Yasmina Khadra.

A Hijacking, Tobias Lindholm's dramatic thriller about the capturing of a Danish merchant ship by Somali pirates, was also a big winner. The feature shared the Marrakech Jury Prize with Vahid Vakilifar's Iranian drama Taboor and won the Best Actor honor for Hijacking star Soren Malling. Best Actress went to Elina Reinold for her role in Mushrooming from Estonian director Toomas Hussar.