Malmö Arab Film Festival
Malmö Arab Film Festival (MAFF) is an Arab film festival based in Malmö, Sweden. MAFF is widely regarded as the most influential and largest Arabic film festival in Europe, and is the only one in Scandinavia. The first edition was held in 2011 and today the festival presents a broad selection of films made by Arab filmmakers or that in some way connects with questions of the Arab world or culture. = 2011: Messages from the Sea, directed by Daoud Abdel Sayed (Egypt) 2012: Cairo Exit, directed by Hesham Issawi (Egypt) 2013: Blind Intersections, directed by Lara Saba (Lebanon) 2014: Adiós Carmen, directed by Mohamed Amin Benamraoui (Morocco) 2015: Theeb, directed by Naji Abu Nowar (Jordan) 2016: 3000 Nights, directed by Mai Masri (Palestine) 2017: Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim, directed by Sherif El Bendary (Egypt) 2018: Wajib, directed by Annemarie Jacir (Palestine) 2019: Exterior/Night, directed by Ahmad Abdalla (Egypt) 2020: A Son, directed by Mehdi Barsaoui (Tunisia) 2021: The Man Who Sold His Skin, directed by Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia, France) = 2013: Maggie Morgan for Asham: a man called Hope (Egypt) 2014: Hany Abu-Assad for Omar (Palestine) 2015: Amin Dora for Ghadi (Lebanon) 2016: Lotfi Bouchouchi for The Well (Algeria) 2017: Lotfi Achour for Burning Hope (Tunisia) 2018: Mohamed Al-Daradji for The Journey (Iraq) 2019: Bahij Hojeij for Good Morning (Lebanon) 2020: Amjad Abu Alala for You Will Die at Twenty (Sudan) 2021: Abdulaziz Alshlahei for The Tambour of Retribution (Saudi Arabia) = 2011: Asser Yassin for Messages from the Sea 2012: Amine Ennaji for The Forgotten (Les oubliés de l'Histoire) 2013: Basse Samra for After the Battle 2014: Adam Bakri for Omar 2015: Nour El Sherif for Cairo Time 2016: Ashraf Barhom for The Curve (Al Munataf) 2017: Azelarab Kaghat for Hayat 2018: Ali Yahyaoui for Benzine 2019: Ahmed Hafiane for Fatwa 2020: Mohamed Hatem for When We're Born 2021: Salim Dau for Gaza mon amour = 2011: Julia Kassar for Here Comes The Rain 2012: Nelly Karim for Cairo 678 (Les Femmes du bus 678) 2013: Waad Mohammed for Wadjda 2014: Yasmin Raeis for Factory Girl 2015: Malak Ermileh for Eyes of a Thief 2016: Menna Shalabi for Nawara 2017: Anissa Daoud for Burning Hope (Demain dès l’aube) 2018: Zahraa Ghandour for The Journey 2019: Fatima Attif for The Healer (La Guérisseuse) 2020: Najla Ben Abdallah for A Son 2021: Naima Lemcherki for Autumn of Apple Trees (L'Automne des Pommiers) Malmö Arab Film Festival (MAFF) - Official homepage