The Man Who Sold His Skin

After exposing the abuse of a rape victim by police officers in her 2017 film, Beauty and the Dogs, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania turns her attention to another kind of abuse of the powerless by the powerful in her latest movie, The Man Who Sold His Skin. The protagonist of the film is Sam, a young Syrian from Raqqa, who’s deeply in love with his sweetheart, Abeer.