Films about the Egyptian revolution
This list contains films either related or speaks about the Egyptian revolution. Most of the films listed will be documentary or others directly related.
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- DirectorJehane NoujaimStarsAhmed HassanKhalid AbdallaMagdy AshourA group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.
- DirectorAyten AminTamer EzzatAmr SalamaMonths after Hosni Mubarak stepped down, Egyptians country-wide seem determined to maintain the insurgency until their demands are met.
- DirectorFredrik StantonStarsRasha AbdullaLisa AndersonShaima El-ElaimyThe inside story of the Egyptian revolution from the perspective of its principal leaders and organizers, including four Nobel Peace Prize nominees. Their success in forcing the downfall of a brutal dictatorship has changed the face of the Middle East and provided hope for millions of oppressed people across the world. Above all, it is a story of profound hope, of courage rewarded, of a people who beat back a police state and threw off the shackles of decades of degradation and oppression.
- DirectorSherif SadekAn Egyptian American goes to his native Cairo one year after the Egyptian Revolution to see for himself the challenges faced by Egypt as it navigates the road to democracy.
- DirectorJon AlpertMatthew O'NeillStarsMohamed Abdel KoddousSharif Abdel KouddousHosni MubarakShot in the center of Egypt's Tahrir Square from the beginning of the battles to the climax of the celebration, 'In Tahrir Square - 18 Days of Egypt's Unfinished Revolution' helps audiences experience first-hand the people-powered revolt that brought down a dictator and changed Egypt forever.
- DirectorJohanna DomkeMarouan OmaraStarsHani El MetenawyCROP involves you in a personal story of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, told from a rare perspective: a photo journalist, that had served the old regime and had tried to change the course of history.
- DirectorIbrahim El-BatoutStarsAmr WakedFarah YusufSalah AlhanafySet against the momentous backdrop of the whirlwind Tahrir Square protests, Winter of discontent poetically explores the anguish of a victim state terror in 2009, presaging and intertwining with the pivotal events in 2011 that changed the face of Egypt. As the stories of the characters unfold, we are propelled headlong into the heady, often surreal atmosphere of terror and uncertainty that characterized the last days of Mubarak's rule.
- DirectorAhmed AbdullahMariam Abo-OufKamla AbouzekriStarsAhmed HelmyAmr WakedMona ZakiTen separate stories about the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
- DirectorJed RothsteinStarsSherine AmrGameela IsmailAyman NourIn 2008, we travel to Egypt to tell the story of heavy metal in a conservative Muslim country. We meet the kids in Cairo's tight knit underground music scene who are the film's main characters, including the sons of the country's foremost political dissidents and the Muslim World's first all-female metal band. Living under an oppressive regime, they're denied the basic right to free expression, and risk arrest just for playing their music... Then halfway through our story, a revolution begins, casting them, and us, into the unknown, opening new horizons, and presenting our main characters with a new set of life changing dilemmas.
- DirectorMohamed SiamStarsAmal GamalNagua SaidEsraa MamdouhAmal is fourteen years old when she goes to Tahrir Square in Cairo during the Arab Spring to showcase. With youthful hubris she goes straight to the danger. This coming of age film follows her in the years that follow, a period in which the fearless Amal seeks her own identity in a country in transition.
- DirectorMohamed DiabStarsNilli KarimHany AdelMuhammad El-SebaiSet entirely in an 8m police truck, a number of detainees from different political and social backgrounds are brought together by fate, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of former president Morsi from power.
- DirectorHala KhalilStarsMenna ShalabiAmeer Salah EldinAhmed RatebEvery day Nawara goes to work along a path that takes her between the alleys of the poor neighborhood and the roads that lead to the villas within a luxury compound. Every day, on her way to work, she carries the worries of the people in her neighborhood and their simple dreams. Little does she know that the spring of 2011 will bring her something unexpected.
- DirectorKarim El HakimOmar ShargawiA documentary account of two filmmakers' experiences in the streets of Cairo during the days of the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
- DirectorGini RetickerStarsHend NafeaWhen 24-year-old Hend Nafea is arrested and tortured for demonstrating peacefully in Cairo's Tahrir Square, her pursuit of justice reflects post-revolution Egypt at an uncertain crossroads.