Malmö Arab Film Festival 14th Edition Kicks-Off
Tomorrow: Malmö Arab Film Festival 14th Edition Kicks-Off
Tomorrow, Monday, marks the start of the fourteenth edition of the Malmo Arab Film Festival, scheduled to take place from April 22nd to April 28th. This edition honors the Egyptian director Khairy Beshara and features Arab Nights screenings in several Swedish cities in addition to the Danish capital, Copenhagen.
The announced program includes 26 films (12 feature films and 14 short films) in the official competitions, produced by 13 Arab countries in partnership with 10 foreign countries. In addition to school screenings and Arab Nights.
On Monday, April 22nd, the opening ceremony begins with a red carpet at the Royal Cinema at 5:00 PM, followed by a welcoming speech by Malmo Mayor Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh.
At 6:30 PM, the opening film “Goodbye Julia” by Sudanese director Mohamed Kordofani, production between Sudan, Sweden, Germany, Saudi Arabia, and France, starring Eiman Yousif, Siran Riak, and Nazar Goma, will be screened.
The opening ceremony continues at the Malmo City Hall, where festival guests, Arab cinema stars, and jury members are welcomed at 8:00 PM by the Deputy Mayor and the Head of the Culture Committee in Malmo.
The festival also honors composer and artist Mohammed Habbash for his music for the Malmo Arab Film Festival, and graphic designer Maher Mzowak for creating the festival logo.
The festival screenings continue from the second day at the Panora Cinema, while the closing film, the Saudi film “Hajjan,” will be screened after the awards ceremony at the Royal Cinema on April 27th. The closing film is a Saudi narrative feature co-produced by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan in 2023, written and directed by Egyptian director Abu Bakr Shawky.
The ‘Arab Nights’ screenings feature four Saudi films, curated in partnership with the Saudi Film Commission and ‘Close Up North’ company. These screenings, totaling six in number, will take place across various cities including Umeå, Helsingborg, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Malmö, and Copenhagen, coinciding with the festivities of the 2024 Malmö Arab Film Festival. This program is designed to offer audiences a distinctive and immersive cinematic journey.
The tenth edition of the Malmo Industry Days of the Malmo Arab Film Festival begins on April 23rd, marking its tenth anniversary. Fourteen projects from fourteen countries will compete for ten cash and in-kind prizes offered by several support funds and in various categories.
Malmö Arab Film Festival is the largest and most famous Arab film festival in Europe and the only one in the Scandinavian countries. Since its founding in 2011, MAFF took major steps towards offering a panoramic view over the Arab social and political situation and conducting constructive dialogues for both professionals and public. The festival’s goal is to build bridges between cultures based on film as a universal visual language, capable of imitating the diversity of human dimension.
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