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MAFF Katalog 2020.Cdr OCTOBER 8-13, 2020 th 10YEARS 10 ANNIVERSARY MALMÖ ARAB The Singer Directed by Kassem Hawal FILM FESTIVAL Aseel Dr.Khalid Alzadjali Baghdad OCTOBER 8-13, 2020 outside Baghdad Directed by Kassem Hawal 0BIOGRAF PANORA WWW.MAFFSWE.COM INSTAGRAM: MAFFSWE FACEBOOK.COM/MAFFSWE TWITTER: MAFFSWE Support Partner Arab Cinema in Sweden - ACIS Sponsor Content 2 Welcome 48 Arabian Nights 3 About MAFF 54 Special Screenings 4 Malmö 58 School Cinema 6 Program 64 MAFF Market Forum 8 Gala Screenings 67 MAFF Awards 12 Feature Film Competition 68 Staff 28 Short Film Competition 69 Information www.maffswe.com 1 Content Mouhamad Keblawi Photo By Hanna Ward WELCOME TO MALMÖ ARAB FILM FESTIVAL 2020 VÄLKOMNA TILL MALMÖ ARAB FILM FESTIVAL 2020 It gives me great pleasure to welcome all of you to the 10th edition of Det är med stor glädje jag välkomnar er till den tionde upplagan Malmö Arab Film Festival. Malmö Arab Film Festival celebrates its tenth av Malmö Arab Film Festival. Malmö Arab Film Festival rar sitt year under the corona Pandemic, which unfortunately forced all events tioårsjubileum mitt under pågående coronapandemi, något som tyvärr that attract big crowds to alter the strategy they adopted for years. This har gjort att alla evenemang som vanligtvis lockar större folksamlingar also applies to Malmo Arab Film Festival for its tenth year for that, we har sett sig tvungna att ändra sina strategier. Detta gäller även årets designed the festival program and the lm's screenings to comply with Malmö Arab Film Festival. Vi har specialutformat programmet och the mass gathering in accordance with the laws of the Swedish lmvisningarna för att de ska ligga i linje med svenska myndigheters authorities. Furthermore, a selection of lms will be screened in schools rekommendationer. Dessutom kommer ett urval av våra lmer visas på and libraries across Skåne county to guarantee as many people as skolor och bibliotek i Skåneregionen, för att så många som möjligt ska få possible will enjoy the Arab lms. We've also arranged for the chansen att njuta av arabisk lm. Vidare kommer vi sända alla broadcasting of all the festival events, market, and forum on social media evenemang under festivalen och marknadsforumet på sociala medier, för to expending more views. att nå ut till er. MAFF is the only festival in the Scandinavian region that has been MAFF är, sedan 2011, den enda festivalen i Skandinavien som fokuserar presenting and focusing on Arab Cinema and culture since 2011. Not enbart på arabisk lm och kultur. Utöver detta har festivalen, som många only this but, the festival is referred to as ''Malmö'' which means we've i den arabiska lmvärlden kort och gott kommit att referera till som become part of our beloved town and we've contributed to putting it on ”Malmö”, kommit att bli en integrerad del av Malmö som kulturstad och the Arab art and cinema map, Malmö also contributed to deploy Arab har bidragit till att sätta staden på den arabiska lm- och kulturkartan – cinema. samtidigt som Malmö i sin tur bidragit till att stärka den arabiska lmen. The establishment of MAFF forum helped to strengthen the rank of the Genom instiftandet av MAFFs marknadsforum har festivalen yttat fram festival internationally and this facilitated perceptible cooperation between sina positioner internationellt, och forumet har påtagligt stärkt samverkan the Scandinavian and Arab regions especially in distribution and mellan de skandinaviska och arabiska lmregionerna, särskilt vad det production elds. The number of participants in ''MAFF'' forum and gäller distribution och produktion. Antalet deltagare i årets market will be limited, in compliance with The Public Health Agency of marknadsforum är begränsat, i enlighet med Folkhälsomyndighetens Sweden. However, it's possible to offer lmmakers that can't attend the rekommendationer. För de lmmakare som inte kan delta på plats festival in person, digital accreditation to have online access to all the kommer det dock nnas möjlighet att få digital ackreditering och delta i activities we host. We hope that the year 2021 will bring positivity and alla aktiviteter online. hope toward a prosperous future. We've learned so much from this year Vi hoppas att år 2021 kommer bli ett år präglat av optimism och ljusa and we're still committed to our goal to bring together all cinema lovers framtidsutsikter. Vi har lärt oss mycket under detta år, och vi är with their different cultures on one platform, Malmö. On behalf of Malmö fortfarande trogna vårt mål om att sammanföra lmälskare från olika Arab Film Festival team, I would like to thank the honourable audience bakgrunder för att mötas på en och samma plattform: Malmö. and hope that you have a wonderful watching experience. Å MAFF-teamets vägnar vill jag rikta ett varmt tack till vår ärade publik, Welcome to Malmö. och önska er många fantastiska lmupplevelser. Välkomna till Malmö. Mouhamad Keblawi Founder - Head of festival & industry Welcome 2 10th Malmö Arab Film Festival ABOUT MAFF OM MAFF Malmö Arab Film Festival - MAFF is the leading and largest lm festival Malmö Arab Film Festival - MAFF är den ledande och största focusing on Arab cinema outside the Arab world. The festival has been lmfestivalen med fokus på arabisk lm utanför arabvärlden. held since 2011 and has since then come to provide a platform for Arab Festivalen arrangerades för första gången 2011, och har sedan dess cinema in Europe. MAFF grew out of a common need in Malmö and kommit att utgöra en plattform för den arabiska lmen i Europa. MAFF Sweden—a longing to create an Arabic cultural platform with lm as the växte fram ur ett gemensamt behov i Malmö och Sverige -en strävan binding element. The starting point for the festival was just this - to create efter en arabisk kulturell plattform med lmen som medium. a meeting place around Arab Cinema in Malmö, Sweden and Europe. Utgångspunkten med festivalen var just denna – att skapa en mötesplats The festival was founded by the festival's general manager and creative kring den arabiska lmen i Malmö, Sverige och Europa. Festivalen leader Mouhamad Keblawi. It started as a grassroots initiative and has grundades av festivalens direktör och kreativa ledare Mouhamad Keblawi. since undergone a tremendous development and is now the largest lm Festivalen startade som ett gräsrotsinitiativ och har sedan dess festival in southern Sweden. The rst edition of the festival clearly genomgått en fantastisk utveckling och är nu den största publika showcased a great demand and during the next two years, the foundation lmfestivalen i södra Sverige. Redan vid festivalens första upplaga of the festival was built, receiving great attention in both Sweden and framkom den stora efterfrågan och behovet av festivalen, och under de internationally. The range of lms and international guests increased as två kommande åren byggdes sedan grunden för festivalen som ck stor well as collaborations with external organizations. The organization is an uppmärksamhet i Sverige och även internationellt. Utbudet av lmer och all-year-around operation working with special events and festivals across internationella gäster ökade och även samarbeten med externa aktörer Sweden. Malmo Arab Film Festival is ultimately an organization that och organisationer. Organisationen bedriver verksamhet året runt ,med promotes diversity and tolerance with the cinema as its tool. The lm evenemang och festivaler över hela Sverige. Malmö Arab Film Festival är medium has a universal language and offers an unbeatable explosiveness ytterst en organisation som verkar för mångfald och tolerans med lmen as narrator and as a foundation for understanding and humanity. som verktyg. Film har ett universellt språk och erbjuder en oslagbar Cinema is for everyone and crosses all boundaries. explosivitet som berättare och en grund för förståelse och medmänsklighet. Filmen är för alla och korsar alla gränser. www.maffswe.com 3 About MAFF Photo By Fredrik Johansson ABOUT MALMÖ OM MALMÖ MALMÖ IS MORE THAN A CITY. Malmö is meetings, food and laughter. Malmö är mer än en stad. Malmö är mötena, maten och skratten. Malmö brims with people creating experiences for others to enjoy Malmö är fullt av människor som skapar upplevelser för andra - theatre, art and music. Malmö is Sweden's third largest city and the - lm, mat, konst och musik. Malmö är Sveriges tredje största stad och commercial center of southern Sweden and the Öresund region. The handelscentrum för Sydsverige och Öresundsregionen. Området är det area is Scandinavia's most densely populated metropolitan region and is mest tätbefolkade i hela Skandinavien och utgör hem åt mer än 3,7 home to 3.7 million people or a quarter of the whole of Sweden and miljoner människor, vilket innefattar omkring en fjärdedel av hela Sverige Denmark's population. och Danmarks befolkning. Malmö is an intercultural and youthful city. In recent years the population Malmö är en interkulturell och ungdomlig stad. Under de senaste åren of Malmö has increased signicantly. Malmö is a very international city har stadens befolkning ökat dramatiskt. Malmö är en mycket with nearly a third of its inhabitants bornabroad. There are 174 internationell stad där omkring en tredjedel av alla invånare har fötts nationalies represented in Malmö and 150 different languages. utomlands. Sammanlagt nns 174 nationaliteter i Malmö, och det pratas Ideas and momentum ow in Malmö. You feel this ow when you visit. omkring 150 olika språk i staden. You feel it in our art, our music, our food. You feel it in our diversity and I Malmö nns en rörelse av idéer och kraft som är helt unik. Du känner people. Malmö is a place where people come to full their dreams. A den när du besöker oss. När du upplever konsten, musiken och maten. city with room for ambition and talent – and that invites you to join in.
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