Malmö Arab Film Festival (MAFF) is the leading and largest film festival dedicated to Arab cinema outside the Arab world. The festival has been held since 2011 and has since then come to provide a platform for Arab cinema in Europe. The starting point for the festival was to create a platform and a meeting place for Arab cinema in Malmö, Sweden and Europe. The festival was founded by the festival's general manager and creative director Mouhamad Keblawi. It started as a grassroots initiative and has since undergone a tremendous development, and is now the largest film festival in southern Sweden.

The 13th edition of Malmö Arab Film Festival will take place between the 28th April to 4th of May, 2023.

The full line-up of the 13th Malmö Arab Film Festival:

Opening Film

Mediterranean Fever - Directed by Maha Haj (Palestine, Germany, France, Cyprus)

Feature Film Competition

19B - Directed by Ahmed Abdulla Elsayed (Egypt)

Alam - Directed by Firas Khoury (Palestine, France, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar)

Batata - Directed by Nora Kevorkian (Canada, Lebanon)

Hanging Gardens - Directed by Ahmed Yassin Aldaradji (Iraq, Palestine, Egypt, Britain, Saudi Arabia)

Heroic Bodies - Directed by Sarah Suliman (Sudan)

Nezouh - directed by Soudade Kaadan (Syria, Britain, France)

The Last Queen - Directed by Adila Bendimerad and Damien Ounouri (Algeria, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Taiwan)

Hyphen - Directed by Reine Razzouk (Lebanon)

Queens - Directed by Yasmine Benkiran (Morocco, France, Qatar, Belgium, Saudi Arabia)

Raven Song - Directed by Mohamed Al Salman (Saudi Arabia)

Riverbed - Directed by Bassem Breche (Lebanon, Qatar)

Under the Fig Trees - Directed by Erige Sehiri (Tunisia, France, Switzerland, Germany, Qatar)

Short Film Competition

Abed - Directed by Abedalsalam Alhaj (Jordan)

Almaz - Directed by Mia Bittar (Sudan)

Bystander - Directed by Rachel Aoun (Lebanon, Qatar)

Flesh and Blood - Directed by Ines Arsi (Tunisia, Lebanon)

Hamza Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me - Directed by Ward Kayyal (Palestine)

Les Chenilles - Directed by Michelle Keserwany and Noel Keserwany (Lebanon)

Mama - Directed by Naji Ismail (Egypt)

My Girlfriend - Directed by Kawthar Younis (Egypt)

My Mother's Hand - Directed by Kardina Hemn (Iraq)

Old Phone Number - Directed by Ali Saeed (Saudi Arabia)

One for Eight - Directed by Lynn Tawilé (Lebanon)

Othman - Directed by Khaled Zeidan (Saudi Arabia)

Palestine 87 - Directed by Bilal Alkhatib (Palestine)

A Proposal - Directed by Nadia Al-Khater (Qatar)

She Said No - Directed by Sondos Shabayek (Egypt, Germany)

Sisters Of the Rotation - Directed by Michel and Gaby Zarazir (Lebanon)

Torn - directed by Jahfar Muataz (Sweden, Denmark, Jordan)

Arabian Nights

All Roads Lead to Rome - Directed by Lara Saba (Lebanon)

Moez the End of the Tunnel - Directed by Mohamed Ali Nahdi (Tunisia)

Valley Road - Directed by Khaled Fahd (Saudi Arabia)

Al-Hamour H.A. - Directed by Abdul-Ilah Al-Qurashi (Saudi Arabia) - in Copenhagen only

Films Worth Watching

A Summer in Boujad - Directed by Omar Mouldouira (Morocco, France, Belgium)

Three Promises - Directed by Youssef Srouji (Palestine, USA)

School Screening

A Summer in Boujad - Directed by Omar Mouldouira (Morocco, France, Belgium)

Family Films

Firas Fits In - Directed by Tony El-Ghazal (Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon, Canada) - short

Searching For Three Thousand Egyptian Pound - Directed by Hozifa Abdelhalim (Egypt) - Short

Shorts from Saudi

The Grand Secret of Barseem - Directed by Sultan Rabea (Saudi Arabia)

Koora - Directed by Ziyad Alzahrani (Saudi Arabia)

The Old School - Directed by Abdullah Al Khamees (Saudi Arabia)

Voices Amplified

Finding Oum Al Ghaith - Directed by Abeer Bayazidi (Jordan)

Self-Commitment - Directed by Aseel Yaseen (Jordan)

She is Ouf - Directed by Muhannad Lafi (Jordan)

Wardeh - Directed by Rahmeh Alshmmas (Jordan)

Who is Zeyne - Directed by Zaid Bawab (Jordan)