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THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN (L'HOMME QUI A VENDU SA PEAU)
DISTR Theatrical, AUSTRIA
 
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Post-Production - ARABIC, ENGLISH - Drama

Year of production : 2019

Director(s) : Kaouther BEN HANIA
Cast : Monica BELUCCI, Yahya MAHAYNI, Dea LIANE, Koen DE BOUW, Wim DELVOYE

Producer(s) : - - (TANIT FILMS), - - (CINETELEFILMS), Guillaume RAMBOURG, - - (KWASSA FILMS), - - (LAIKA FILMS), - - (TWENTY TWENTY VISION), - - (METAFORA PRODUCTIONS), - - (SUNNYLAND FILMS)

Synopsis

Sam Ali, a young sensitive and impulsive Syrian, fled to Lebanon to escape the Syrian war. Without legal status, he is unable to get a visa to go to Europe where his beloved Abeer lives. While living off opening cocktails in art galleries in Beirut, he meets Jeffrey Godefroi, the best-known American artist in contemporary art, with whom he concludes a strange deal that will forever change his life. The artist suggests to turn Sam Ali into his artwork by tattooing a Schengen visa on his back. Obsessed by the opportunity to see his love, Sam Ali agrees and passes from the status of a vulgar «undocumented refugee» to a work of art internationally solicited realizing that the visa on his back means anything but freedom.

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Country(ies) : FRANCE, TUNISIA, BELGIUM, SWEDEN, GERMANY

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