"The Man Who Sold His Skin" to Participate at OSCARS

The National Center of Cinema and Image of Tunisia selected the award-winning "The Man Who Sold His Skin" as Tunisia's representative at the Best Foreign Language Film award competition at OSCARS.

Also, the film's director Kaouther Ben Hania won the Best Script Award at Stockholm International Film Festival yesterday.

The Tunisian 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.

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.

This film also was among the winning CineGouna SpringBoard projects in development, but it was one of the winners of the 2nd edition of GFF.

Furthermore, the film received the Edipo Re Inclusion Award, while Yahya Mahayni received the Orizzonti Award for Best Actor at the 77th Venice Film Festival.