MAD Solutions has sent three shorts and four features to the festival.
MAD Solutions has sent seven films from its distribution slate for this year’s edition of the Malmö Arab Film Festival, which will run until May 4 in Sweden.
This year, the MAD line-up includes Abedelsalam Alhaj’s ABED, Inès Arsi’s Flesh and Blood, and Ward Kayyal’s Hamza: Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me, all of which will be competing in the festival’s Official Competition for Short Films. Three films which include Erige Sehiri’s Under the Fig Trees, Soudade Kaadan’s Nezouh, and Firas Khoury’s Alam will compete in the festival’s Official Competition for Feature Films and Mohamed Ali Nahdi’s Moez the End of the Tunnel will be screened as part of the festival’s Arabian Nights Programme.
Directors of the films will attend the screening during the festival.
Sehiri’s social thriller Under the Fig Trees will be screened on Tuesday, May 2 at 5:30 PM.
Co-written by Ghalya Lacroix and Peggy Hamann, the film stars Fide Fdhili, Feten Fdhili, Ameni Fdhili, Samar Sifi, and Abdelhak Mrabti.
Mohamed Ali Nahdi’s debut feature Moez the End of the Tunnel is set to be screened on Monday, May 1 at 10 PM.
Starring Seif Mannai, Akrem Sakkouhi Mag, Lamine Nahdi, and Leila Chebbi, Moez the End of the Tunnel is co-written by Mohamed Ali Nahdi and Slim Ben Ismail.
Written and directed by Firas Khoury, Alam — which stars Mahmood Bakri, Sereen Khass, Saleh Bakri, Mohammad Karaki, Ahmad Zaghmouri, and Muhammad Abed Elrahman— will be featured on Tuesday, May 2 at 10 PM.
ABED by Abedelsalam Alhaj will be screening on May 2 at 5 PM in Panora 2.
Written and directed by Alhaj, the film stars Hisham Alomari, Mohammad Abuagoulah, and Ali Badrana. The film follows the story of Abed — a child who works with his cruel father in a restaurant. After a particularly long day at work, Abed is forced to confront his fear of the dark and street dogs when he is asked to buy his father a pack of cigarettes past midnight.
Flesh and Blood is a social drama that revolves around Donia, who was raped by her young neighbour and is being pressured by her family to marry the rapist to cover up the scandal.
After discovering that she is with a child, Donia decides to get an abortion before it is too late. In her battle, Donia faces a patriarchal society and a hypocritical system.
Written and directed by Inès Arsi, the film stars Sana Lahbib, Mourad Gharsalli, and Noomene Hamda, and will be screening on May 2 at 7 PM in Panora 2.
Hamza: Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me will be screening on May 2 at 9:30 PM in Panora 2.
The film is written and directed by Majd and Ward Kayyal, respectively, and premiered at the Cairo International Film Festival.
The film stars Kamel Al-Basha, Ruba Blal, Motaz Malhes, and Khoulod Tannous, and tells the story of Hamza — a middle-aged man, who refuses to abandon a routine he has kept since his release from an Israeli jail; he goes into the woods every day to chase a lion that the locals don’t think exists.
Despite his wife’s pleadings and the villagers’ contempt, Hamza sets his baits and traps in the forest, hoping to defeat the mysterious threat and find refuge in his journey after each battle.
In the woods, Hamza is free to act according to his beliefs, fighting his own battle to heal an open wound and confront horrific memories of torture and guilt.
