Malmö Arab Film Festival

Malmö Arab Film Festival 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.

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Winners

Best Film

2011: Messages from the Sea, directed by Daoud Abdel Sayed
2012: Cairo Exit, directed by Hesham Issawi
2013: Blind Intersections, directed by Lara Saba
2014: Adiós Carmen, directed by Mohamed Amin Benamraoui
2015: Theeb, directed by Naji Abu Nowar
2016: 3000 Nights, directed by Mai Masri
2017: Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim, directed by Sherif El Bendary
2018: Wajib, directed by Annemarie Jacir
2019: Exterior/Night, directed by Ahmad Abdalla
2020: A Son, directed by Mehdi Barsaoui
2021: The Man Who Sold His Skin, directed by Kaouther Ben Hania

Best Director

2013: Maggie Morgan for Asham: a man called Hope
2014: Hany Abu-Assad for Omar
2015: Amin Dora for Ghadi
2016: Lotfi Bouchouchi for The Well
2017: Lotfi Achour for Burning Hope
2018: Mohamed Al-Daradji for The Journey
2019: Bahij Hojeij for Good Morning
2020: Amjad Abu Alala for You Will Die at Twenty
2021: Abdulaziz Alshlahei for ''The Tambour of Retribution''

Best Actor

2011: Asser Yassin for Messages from the Sea
2012: Amine Ennaji for The Forgotten
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
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''

Best Actress

2011: Julia Kassar for Here Comes The Rain
2012: Nelly Karim for Cairo 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
2018: Zahraa Ghandour for The Journey
2019: Fatima Attif for The Healer
2020: Najla Ben Abdallah for A Son
2021: Naima Lemcherki for ''Autumn of Apple Trees''