Features: Ahmed Hassan, Khalid Abdalla, Magdy Ashour, Ramy Essam, Buthayna Kamel, Aida Elkashef, Ragia Omran | Written and Directed by Jehane Noujaim
Documentaries when done right can strike a nerve with the viewer, especially if the subject is something that they can connect to emotionally. The Square is a documentary that everybody can relate to because of the themes of freedom and democracy. Whether we live in a country that has democracy in some form or a lack of it we can all relate to that need to be able to live our lives without fear of persecution.
The Square is a film about the Egyptian Revolution, we all saw the pictures on television and saw the country fight for the end of the Mubarak regime. The documentary looks beyond that moment though when many of the cameras stopped rolling and the international media stopped reporting on the continuing struggle. With...
Documentaries when done right can strike a nerve with the viewer, especially if the subject is something that they can connect to emotionally. The Square is a documentary that everybody can relate to because of the themes of freedom and democracy. Whether we live in a country that has democracy in some form or a lack of it we can all relate to that need to be able to live our lives without fear of persecution.
The Square is a film about the Egyptian Revolution, we all saw the pictures on television and saw the country fight for the end of the Mubarak regime. The documentary looks beyond that moment though when many of the cameras stopped rolling and the international media stopped reporting on the continuing struggle. With...
- 7/15/2014
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Director Jehane Noujaim discusses her documentary on Tahrir Square and three years of revolutionary political upheaval
The Square is the first Egyptian film to earn an Oscar nomination – but it cannot officially be shown in Egypt itself. That is down to its provocative subject matter: the documentary charts the course of Egypt's political upheaval since 2011, through the eyes of a handful of Tahrir Square protesters. Here, the film's director, Jehane Noujaim, explains how she made it, and defends her protagonists against accusations of idealism.
Patrick Kingsley: The film focuses on half a dozen protesters who you follow over a three-year period, beginning right at the start of the 2011 uprising. Why did you decide to focus on these people in particular, and how did you find them so early in the revolution?
Jehane Noujaim: I look for characters that I fall in love with, that will take me places that I have never been,...
The Square is the first Egyptian film to earn an Oscar nomination – but it cannot officially be shown in Egypt itself. That is down to its provocative subject matter: the documentary charts the course of Egypt's political upheaval since 2011, through the eyes of a handful of Tahrir Square protesters. Here, the film's director, Jehane Noujaim, explains how she made it, and defends her protagonists against accusations of idealism.
Patrick Kingsley: The film focuses on half a dozen protesters who you follow over a three-year period, beginning right at the start of the 2011 uprising. Why did you decide to focus on these people in particular, and how did you find them so early in the revolution?
Jehane Noujaim: I look for characters that I fall in love with, that will take me places that I have never been,...
- 1/20/2014
- by Patrick Kingsley
- The Guardian - Film News
This is history firsthand, in progress, and unfinished. An invaluable record of revolutionary spirit, and of the lengths to which a threatened leadership will go to preserve itself. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
We watched it on the news, but we never got the full story. (We never do.) On and off between late 2010 and 2013, thousands of protesters against “injustice, corruption, poverty, ignorance” filled Tahrir Square in Cairo, first demanding that despotic leader Hosni Mubarak step down, then to push for the change that the army leadership that took over promised and hadn’t delivered, then for free and fair elections, then against the even more dictatorial Mohammed Morsi, who won an election and granted himself pharaohic powers beyond what even Mubarak had. The fight for a democratic Egypt is far from over, which...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
We watched it on the news, but we never got the full story. (We never do.) On and off between late 2010 and 2013, thousands of protesters against “injustice, corruption, poverty, ignorance” filled Tahrir Square in Cairo, first demanding that despotic leader Hosni Mubarak step down, then to push for the change that the army leadership that took over promised and hadn’t delivered, then for free and fair elections, then against the even more dictatorial Mohammed Morsi, who won an election and granted himself pharaohic powers beyond what even Mubarak had. The fight for a democratic Egypt is far from over, which...
- 1/10/2014
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Title: The Square Noujaim Films Director: Jehane Noujaim Screenwriter: Jehane Noujaim Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Ahmed Hassan, Aida Kashef, Magdy Ashour, Ragia Omran, Ramy Essam, Aida El Kashef, Hosni Mubarak, Mohamed Morsi Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 10/16/13 Opens: November 1, 2013 Golly…look at all those people demonstrating in Cairo’s Tahir Square. Millions! Perhaps the largest single demonstration in world history, according to the narrator. What’re they saying? “Death to Israel?” Nope. “Down with America?” Sorry, not there either. What, then, could possibly draw so many Egyptians to the street, women included? Here is your answer. Egyptians are against Egyptians. No, they’re not saying “Death to Egyptians,” but you get the [ Read More ]
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- 10/18/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Jessica Ghawi was an aspiring journalist and blogger well on her way to a promising media career. "I only met her twice, but felt like I knew her for years, just goes to show how powerful of a personality she had online," Jesse Spector, a national hockey writer for Sporting News, told People exclusively, after the 25-year-old was identified as one of the 12 reported victims of the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting during the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises on Friday. "She had such a bright future in this business, because people like that find a way to succeed.
- 7/20/2012
- by Maggie Coughlan
- PEOPLE.com
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