Der Mann, der seine Haut verkaufte

While director Kaouther Ben Hania was visiting the Louvre Museum in Paris in 2012, there was a retrospective of Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. There she saw, in Napoleon III's apartments, Delvoye's Tim (2006 - 08), in which the artist had tattooed the back of Tim Steiner, who was sitting on an armchair with his shirt off displaying Delvoye's design. The piece was sold to a German art collector and Tim is contractually obliged to spend a certain amount of time, topless and sitting still, in a gallery every year. Wim Delvoye appears in the movie as the insurance guy.

When Sam Ali changes his seat at the train at 05:55, the place of the man in the back seat changes each time the camera switches between Sam and Abeer.

Featured in Die 93. Oscar-Verleihung (2021)