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The Square

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Tahrir Square becomes the fixed point of a revolution that refuses to end in this account of Egypt's uprising, following activists across the fall of Mubarak, the military's rise, and the election and ouster of Mohamed Morsi. Ahmed Hassan, a young revolutionary who sleeps in the square between protests, anchors the film alongside Khalid Abdalla, an actor who films the crackdowns on his phone, and Magdy Ashour, a Muslim Brotherhood member whose loyalties get tested as the alliance between secular protesters and Islamists breaks apart. The camera stays inside the crowd through tear gas, gunfire, and the run-over bodies at the Presidential Guard clashes, rather than watching from a studio. Debates inside apartments and tents show the same argument recurring: whether to trust elections, the army, or only each other. The film covers roughly three years of continuous upheaval and ends without a settled outcome, because Egypt did not have one when filming stopped. What it captures instead is the shift in the activists themselves, from people demanding a leader's exit to people arguing about what comes after.