Monday film: The Man Who Sold His Skin

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

This project is born from the encounter between two worlds. The world of contemporary art, and more particularly the work of the Belgian artist Wim Delvoye (Tim, 2006) and the world of political refugees—especially Syrian refugees, their struggle with travel documents and residency permits... I have indeed asked myself: “What would happen if... a famous artist offered to a refugee to become his work of art to solve his freedom of movement problem?” Thus, was born the journey of Sam Ali: a passionate young refugee thrown into a cynical world. An ordinary man facing an extraordinary adventure. The film is also a love story where the protagonist is separated from the woman he loves, and he tries to recover even if he has to lose his dignity and his skin in the process. Or what does it mean to be free when the game is already rigged, when you don’t have much of a choice? The Man Who Sold His Skin is an allegory about one’s personal freedom in an inegalitarian system tackling broader meaning about our real-world issues.