The Square (2013 film)
The Square (Arabic: الميدان, romanized: Al-Maydan) is a 2013 Egyptian-American documentary film by Jehane Noujaim, which depicts the Egyptian Crisis until 2013, starting with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 at Tahrir Square.[4] The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards.[5] It also won three Emmy Awards at the 66th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, out of four for which it was nominated.
The Square (El-Midan)
Khalid Abdalla
Ahmed Hassan
Dina Abdullah
Magdy Ashour
Sherif Boray
Aida El-Kashef
Jehane Noujaim
Muhammad Hamdy
Ahmed Hassan
Cressida Trew
Christopher de la Torre
Mohammed el Manasterly
Karim Fanous
Pierre Haberer
Pedro Kos
Stefan Ronowicz
Shazeya Serag
Angie Wegdan Yasmin Kamal
Jonas Colstrup
Score:
H. Scott Salinas
GathrFilms
Participant Media
108 minutes[1]
Egypt
United States
Egyptian Arabic
English
$1.5 million[2]
$124,244[3]
Release[edit]
The Square premiered on January 17, 2013, at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award for World Cinema in the documentary category.[4] It was pitched as part of the 2012 MeetMarket at that year's Sheffield Doc/Fest. Due to the ongoing nature of the Egyptian Revolution, Noujaim updated the ending of the film over the summer of 2013.[4] The film was subsequently also named winner of the Kalba People's Choice Award in the documentary category at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.[6] The production is done in the native languages of its cast and is presented with English subtitles.
The film was released on Netflix and in exclusive locations across the United States on January 17, 2014.[7] The final version was modified to take political developments into the final version, as released on Netflix.