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To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art. Starring Yahya Mahayni, Dea Liane, Koen De Bouw in lead roles.
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To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art. Starring Yahya Mahayni, Dea Liane, Koen De Bouw in lead roles.
Best International Coproduction Meilleure coproduction internationale | 2021 | Kaouther Ben
2021 | Kaouther Ben
Feature Narrative Competition | 2020 | Kaouther Ben
Best Actor | 2020
2020 | Kaouther Ben
2021 | Kaouther Ben
Most Thought Provoking Film | 2021 | Kaouther Ben
Best International Feature Film | 2021
Feature Film Spielfilm | 2021 | Christopher
Best Foreign Film in CoProduction (Meilleur film tranger en coproduction) | 2022 | Kaouther Ben
Best Film | 2021 | Kaouther Ben
Publikumspreis | 2021 | Kaouther Ben
Independent Films Competition | 2021 | Kaouther Ben
2021 | Kaouther Ben
Glocal Images Best Film Award | 2021 | Kaouther Ben
Best Film | 2020 | Kaouther Ben
Best Film | 2020 | Kaouther Ben
Feature Narrative Competition | 2020 | Kaouther Ben
While director Kaouther Ben Hania was visiting the Louvre Museum in Paris in 2012, there was a retrospective of Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. There she saw, in Napoleon III's apartments, Delvoye's Tim (2006 - 08), in which the artist had tattooed the back of Tim Steiner, who was sitting on an armchair with his shirt off displaying Delvoye's design. The piece was sold to a German art collector and Tim is contractually obliged to spend a certain amount of time, topless and sitting still, in a gallery every year. Wim Delvoye appears in the movie as the insurance guy.
The movie was nominated for Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards as the first ever nominee from Tunisia.
In English the title of the film is "The Man Who Sold His Skin", but in the original Arabic version the title means "The Man Who Sold His Back".
"Sam Ali: Don't take it badly, ok? fuck you."
"Jeffrey Godefroi: Some pessimists rule that art is dead. Well, I think art has never been more alive than it is today. With my latest work I am exploring a new realm... we live in a very dark era where if you are Syrian, Afghan, Palestinian and so on, you are persona non grata, hmm? The walls rise. And I just made Sam a commodity, a canvas. So now he can travel around the world. Because in the times we are living, the circulation of commodities is much freer than the circulation of a human being. Thus by transforming him into some kind of merchandise, he now will be able, according to the codes of our time, to recover his humanity and his freedom. Now, that's quite a paradox, isn't it? [laughs] Jeffrey Godefroi: Sorry, it's not funny."
