Yahya Mahayni
Tunisian film and Africa’s 2021 Oscar contender, ‘The Man Who Sold His Skin’, on Sunday, lost out in the best international film race to Denmark’s only entry ‘Another Round’.
The riveting film, which was Tunisia’s first Oscar-nominated film, tells the story of a Syrian refugee who tattoos a European-Schengen visa across his back as a living work of art, enabling him to cross international borders.
Comedy-drama ‘Another Round,’ whose plot revolves around four friends who test alcohol’s ability to improve their lives, is the fourth Danish film to take home an Oscar.
Other nominees in the best international film category this year were Hong Kong’s ‘Better Days’, Romania’s ‘Collective’, ‘The Man Who Sold His Skin’ from Tunisia, and the Bosnian war drama ‘Quo Vadis, Aida?’