Film Festival and a Chance to Win Cash Prizes Valued 2000 at Malmo Festival 2020

The Malmö Arab Film Festival, the biggest film festival in southern Sweden, welcomes actors, directors and producers from all over the world. The aim of the festival is to bring Swedish and Arab culture closer together and enhance cultural exchange through visual storytelling. There will be workshops, exhibitions, celebrations and seminars accompanying the film festival. The festival takes place from October 8-13, 2020.

Rules and Conditions:

The festival takes place in October 8-13, 2020, and the selected films will be mainly shown in Malmo as well as in other cities in the region in parallel with the festival days (maximum 4 screenings).
The submission deadline is the 31^st of May 2020.
Films longer than 70 min should be submitted as feature films, and films less than 70 min should be submitted as short films
Films that may participate in the festival are selected by the festival’s judging committee.
Applicants for participation in the festival have no guarantee that the film will be shown during the festival.
There is no fee for applying. No compensation will be paid by the festival to showcase the film.
MAFF only accepts online watching links, any download link will be ignored.
Notification of approved films sent to participants 2 months before the festival’s start date.
Selected films to participate in the festival may not be withdrawn.
Submitted films should be produced in 2019-2020. No contributions that have been produced before the year 2019 will be accepted.
Submitted films will not be accepted if they have been screened in Sweden before.
Malmo Arab Film Festival has the right to manage the use of film clips and photographs from submitted films selected for the festival for all its image or print ads in all pages on the Internet utmost to promote the festival.
Submitted films must be translated into English.

NOTE: Private individuals, companies, copyright owners, film producers, and film production companies have the opportunity to participate in the Festival if they meet all requirements.

Awards:

Short Film Competition

Best Short Documentary Film – Prize value 10000 SEK (±1000 USD)
Best Short Film – Prize value 10000 SEK (±1000 USD)

Feature Film Competition

Best Feature Documentary Film – Prize value 15000 SEK (±1500 USD)
Best Feature Film – Prize value 20000 SEK (±2000 USD)
Best Director
Best Script
Best Actor
Best Actress

The City of Malmö´s Audience Award at MAFF

Audience Award to Best Feature film - Prize value 25000 SEK (±2500 USD)

Important note: Prizes can only be paid by an official invoice issued by a registered company.

About Malmö Arab Film Festival:

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, as cinema is a mirror that reflects social, cultural and economic life, and its intent is to introduce heritage, folklore and art according to the diversity of its subjects and its comprehensiveness. The Malmö Festival started an ambitious idea that aims to occupy a special place in Sweden and Scandinavia. MAFF has an annual structure with events and festivals all over Sweden with special projects and programs, the festival achieved success and rapid presence exceeded expectations.

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