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A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience. THE SQUARE is the real story of the the Egyptian Revolution told through the eyes of six different protesters.
Director: Jehane Noujaim
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Support Noujaim’s other films, including EGYPT: WE’RE WATCHING YOU, which the military police found in Noujaim’s car. She was interrogated for hours. First she denied making a political film and tried to shove the DVDs down a bathroom drain. But when confronted with a glass shard, she said, “Look, I made a film that I’m proud of about three incredible Egyptian women who were fighting for change. And that’s what the film is about. Please watch it. There are more DVDs in the car.”
A MULTITUDE OF DROPS
Those who have stood up against oppression and the unrestrained powers of our time.
“If, like me, you watched all this on TV, the ongoing turmoil began to feel like a distant, abstract blur. Noujaim takes us inside this history by centering on three protesters, each from a different background… The film is less a final reckoning than an exciting bulletin from the front lines of an unfinished revolution.”
Listen to the full story on NPR’s Fresh Air.
The people have been viewing the film through YouTube and illegal downloads. Roughly 1.5 million people have watched it online, estimates producer Karim Amer.
Read more on the Huffington Post.
Interesting article by Foreign Policy that discusses future possibilities for Egypt in light of the events already taken place.
Filmmaker Jehane Noujaim endured arrests and beatings to make her film.
In this Daily Beast interview, she talks about the most frightening moments while filming and why she decided to return to Cairo to film a new ending.
The New Republic essay:
Read the Washington Post review:
“Some of the same young Egyptians who protested alongside Noujaim’s activists now criticize what they see as the film’s rose-tinted bias and oversimplification of an ongoing revolutionary moment that is far from pure or straightforward.”
Read more on Al Jazeera.
The 25 January Egyptian Revolution opened the floodgates for a wave of street art, which was impossible under Mubarak’s regime, where the Ministry of Culture controled all public expression.
After overthrowing Mubarak, decades of oppression and despair became optimism and energy, allowing people to explore new freedoms – including the right to make art.
Check out this gallery of street art.
"Thrusts you right into the heart of the daily struggle they lived."
Time Magazine
"VIBRANT, LYRICAL, GRAPHIC, SOBERING, and finally SOARING testament to aesthetic and political expression"
The Washington Post
"STUNNING! [A story] that has not yet been told with such rousing and heartbreaking clarity. Feels like A REVELATION."
The New York Times
