The Winter of Discontent
Released: 2013
Drama
Amr is a 35 year old man who wakes up one day to a very different Egypt. Amr rarely leaves home as he works from his place designing software. It is January 25, 2011 and Amr starts the day with news of protests all over Cairo and marches leading to Tahrir square. Something tells him that these protests will lead to major political change. Farah, a woman in her early 30’s, is a news anchor on Egyptian television. The news Farah gives her audience is very different from the news presented online or on international news channels.
Starring: Amr Waked, Farah Youssef, Salah Hanafy, Moataz Mosallam, Tamer Abdul-Hamid, Ali Quandil
Directed by: Ibrahim El-Batout
Written by: Ibrahim El-Batout, Ahmed Amer
Language: Arabic
Scenes
The brutal official Adel (Salah Hanafy) locks a cleric in an office and forces him to drink water until he pisses himself. Adel watches with quiet contentment on closed circuit TV as this unfolds. This is intended to send a message to the cleric not to speak out against the government at Friday prayers.
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Alternate Titles
El sheita elli fat (translit)