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CAIRO - 3 March 2019: The Malmö Arab Film Festival in cooperation with the Swedish Film Institute launched on March 1 the opportunity to support film projects made available by the Malmö Arab Film Festival Market Forum. Applicants can apply until May 31.
The conditions of submission were as follows the story of the film should be related to Arab culture, identity or exile and the film project must be a joint production between an Arab producer and a Swedish producer.
After the closing ceremony, the Malmö Arab Film Festival and the Swedish Film Institute will announce in August 2019 the selected projects to compete for market awards and the Malmö Festival Forum.
The Malmö Arab Film Festival is inviting representatives of the five film projects which were chosen to compete in the feature film category and representatives of the three film projects competing in the documentary category to the Malmö Arab Film Festival taking place during the period from October 4-8, 2019.
Representatives of the films and the judging committee will come together to select the winning film project, where project representatives have the opportunity to present and explain their projects to the committee and meet producers and filmmakers from the Nordic countries and the Arab world. Numerous representatives of support funds and donor institutions from around the world will be present.
At the closing ceremony, the judging committee will grant KR 150,000 presented by the Swedish Film Institute for the winning feature film, and KR 75,000 for the winning documentary film. The winning film projects granted the Swedish Film Institute’s financial support will be announced.
"We look forward to continued cooperation between Sweden and Arab countries, and we hope for future successes, as happened with the Tunisian-Swedish joint production film ‘Ala Kaf Afreet’,” said head of the production department in the Swedish Film Institute Magdalena Ganghard.
"We are proud to continue to work and collaborate with the Swedish Film Institute, as this cooperation yielded numerous successful film projects," said Mohammed Keblawi, founder and director of the Malmö Arab Film Festival.
It is worth noting that the Malmö Arab Film Festival and Forum is the first global platform for joint cooperation and production between the East and the Arab world.
Malmö Arab Film Festival (MAFF) works as an intercultural platform for diversity and tolerance. As one of the largest film festivals with the focus on Arab cinema, outside of the Arab world, the festival offers a meeting ground for the Nordic and Arab film industries. MAFF has an annual structure with events and festivals all over Sweden.
The festival was founded in 2011 by the general manager and artistic director Mohammad Keblawi. Evolving from a grassroots movement, the festival was initiated through a need, in Malmö and Sweden, for a space that would share and explore the Arab culture.
MAFF is an intercultural meeting place, a place for discourse and bridge-building between people and cultures.
Around 120 features, short films and documentaries from all over the world screen during the festival. There are also competition sections, panoramas, retrospectives, special screenings, workshops, seminars and celebrations.
Parallel to the festival is the MAFF Market Forum, MMF. The MMF is an industry forum for collaboration between the Nordic and Arab industries.
The ninth edition of Malmö Arab Film Festival will be held October 4-8, 2019.
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