Winter of Discontent
New York African Film Festival 2014
May 7 - 13, 2014
U.S. Premiere
This hard-hitting political thriller set against the 2011 protests at Tahrir Square takes us on a journey into the lives of an activist, a journalist, and a state security officer, laying bare the police state of Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt. Screening with Wooden Hands (Kaouther Ben Hania, 23m).
U.S. Premiere
Set against the momentous backdrop of the whirlwind protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square that began on January 25th, 2011, director Ibrahim El Batout takes us on a raw and starkly moving journey into the lives of revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries alike. Amr is an opposition activist whose face is etched with pain and sorrow; Farah is a journalist who is feeling the pressure of working for the state’s television news channel; and Adel is a security officer who tortures detainees by day and has dinner with his wife in the comfort of their home by night. Their lives will collide in this hard-hitting political thriller that lays bare the police state of Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt and offers a glimpse of the systematic torture and harassment that targeted any internal dissidence. One of the most dramatically satisfying cinematic accounts to date dealing with Egypt’s turbulent developments. Co-presented with 3rd I NY and Alwan for the Arts.
Screening with
Wooden Hands
Kaouther Ben Hania, Tunisia, 2013, Format TK, 23m
Arabic with English subtitles
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