Malmö Arab Film Festival concludes on Oct. 8

CAIRO - 8 October 2019: The Malmö Arab Film Festival (MAFF) will conclude on the evening of Oct. 8 with the awards granting ceremony.

The competing films are; “Mubaraka”, “Fatwa”, “El-Deif”, “Tafah el-Keil”, “Lail Khargy”, “Sabah el-Kheir”, among others.

At the end of the ceremony, the Egyptian film “Youm wa Leila” will be screened in its first International Premier.

Sessions on the Malmö Market Forum resumed as participating films competed for valuable prizes. Two film project categories were presented; short films in development stage where five film projects competed for the award, in addition to the long post-production documentary, in which four film projects competed.

The short films screenings which participated in the ninth edition of the Malmö Arab Film Festival witnessed a huge turnout from the Arab and Swedish audiences.

The second screenings included Tamer Ashri's movie "Matelaash Ala el-Hageb", "Bateekh el- Sheikh" by Kawthar Bin Haniyeh, "The Barber" by Melanie Arenson, “Fekra Thaneya” by Bilal Khatib and “Kesa Ghariba” (Strange Story) by Anthony Yazbek.

The Malmö Arab Film Festival (MAFF) operates 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 with special projects and programs.

The festival was founded in 2011 by the general manager and artistic director Mohamed Keblawi. Evolving from a crossroad movement, the festival was initiated through a need, for a space that would share and explore the Arab culture.