Seminar MAFF: Migration in Arab Cinema

Seminar MAFF: Migration in Arab Cinema
Migration is a complicated, as well as well used, subject in film. Migration demands a cause and motivation—this constitutes the core. At the same time, migration is a process, which not only endures the journey from one home to new, but continues after the arrival through integration and acclimatization.

Film is a narrative medium. It often has a grandiose effect on its audience, and at the same time carries an incredibly ability to communicate social and political messages. Migration films has a special status in the arab film culture, as well as in the international—there are a great number of film festivals with migration and exile as thematic premise, and the migration film has more and more come to develop an unique idom.

Malmo Arab Film Festival has since its first edition, been clear about giving a special room for migration films. This year six films goes under the programme ”Immigration Films”. Characteristic for migration film is that its often produced or directed by a film maker with direct connection to subjects regarding migrations—often the process of integration and acclimatization the main topic of the films. The migration film broad field of subject makes it transparent in form and tune —it embodies everything from feature films to documentaries
and children- and youth films.

What: Seminar MAFF: Migration in Arab Cinema
When: Saturday 27/9 13.00
Where: Media Evolution City Malmö
Moderator: Dr. Hussam Alkoblawi
More info: malmoarabfilmfestival.se