All You Need to Know about Malmö Arab Festival (MAFF)

Next month the 11th edition of the Malmö Arab Festival (MAFF) will kick off in an exceptional hybrid edition. Here is all you need to know about the upcoming edition.

Organized from April 6 to 11, 40 films will participate in the various competitions of the forthcoming edition: 15 long features, and 25 short films. 11 Arab countries are competing in this edition including Egypt.

The official Competition will witness the participation of 11 films are "The Man who Sold his Skin" (Tunisia), "Curfew" (Egypt), "200 Meter" (Palestine), "Under the Concrete" (Lebanon), "Gaza Mon Amour" (Palestine), "The Postcard" (Morocco), "Their Algeria" (Algeria), "The Tambour of Retribution" (KSA), "The Fall of Apple Trees" (Morocco), "Le Fuite" (Tunisia), "We are from there," (Lebanon), and "Al Mastanti" (Tunisia).

Four Egyptian short films will also compete in the festival's competition: "I am Afraid to Forget your Face," "Sunday at 5," "Tuk Tuk," and "The Other Cheek."

"The Man who Sold his Skin" was selected as the opening film, especially after the film was chosen to represent the MENA region in OSCARS competitions.

Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania, film sheds the light on the fears of immigrants after the Syrian War. Sam Ali, a young, sensitive, and impulsive Syrian, fled to Lebanon to escape the Syrian war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4azd-GAMsUw

Without legal status, he is unable to get a visa to go to Europe, where his beloved Abeer lives. While in Beirut, he meets Jeffrey Godefroi, a famous American artist with whom he concludes a strange deal that will forever change his life.