January 2012
The Egyptian Revolution
I found this movie, while looking at a list of films which were screened in the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. It's called 1/2 Revolution and it's about the Egyptian Revolution. here's the official synopsis:
January 2011—downtown Cairo—a close-knit group of activist friends struggle to stay alive and stick together as waves of protests escalate around them in their neighborhood near Tahrir Square during the first chaotic days of the Egyptian revolution. Armed with cameras and focused determination, directors Omar Shargawi and Karim El Hakim take to the streets to capture historic events out of view of the world’s media. What emerges is an astonishing cry for unity. As the violence and uncertainty build, Karim and his young family’s apartment becomes ground zero. Friends and neighbors flock together, fighting to survive the counterpunches thrown by police and the armed gangs of thugs swarming the streets below their balcony.
First of all, I thought this film offers a brand new perspective of the Arabian Spring, since we only saw this revolution from the outside, and this film shows how it affected so many people's lives on a daily basis.
Since documentaries like this one usually don’t become blockbusters, this film won’t get a theatrical release in Europe and it will go straight to DVD in our country. However if you are interested in knowing more about a revolution that continues to unfold before our eyes, I believe you will be able to see it online in a couple of months.
http://filmguide.sundance.org/film/120061/_revolution
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January 2012
Protesters ready igloos to Occupy Davos
Occupy protesters with their sights set on the World Economic Forum, the annual gathering next week of the rich and powerful in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, unveiled their igloo accommodation on Jan. 16. - sea photos and read further)
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1968, France, Europe
Soyons réalistes, exigeons l'impossible!
The meaning of May 68
“What’s important is that the action took place, when everybody believed it to be unthinkable. If it took place this time, it can happen again…” Jean-Paul Sartre (1968)
Since 1968, each anniversary has been the occasion for a new challenge, generally by reducing the May events to various anecdotal aspects, when they are not accused of being at the origin of all our society’s ills. In this field, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been the most radical: “… it is about whether the heritage of May 68 should be perpetuated or should be liquidated once and for all. I want to turn the page on 1968” he proclaimed at the final meeting of his presidential electoral campaign. In one sense, we understand him. In May-June 1968, the mobilisation of an initially very limited fraction of youth was capable of unleashing the biggest general strike in France’s history. And it certainly did not amuse the denizens of the presidential palace when thousands of high school students went onto the streets this year with placards reading “1968… 2008: the dream continues”. - read further
Rebellion and graffiti
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Like May ’68, the uprsings in the Arab world began as revolts of the youth. And what better medium to communicate a subversive youth movement which desires to challenge the status quo – to undermine the oppression of dictatorship, monarchy, or totalitarianism – than the illicit scrawlings of Graffiti? - source
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"Foi nas ruas de Paris que se começou a abrir brechas no Muro de Berlim. As primeiras ideias de contestação que deram alento às pessoas começaram lá. Inspirou, por exemplo, a Primavera de Praga, a queda do sistema ideológico de Leste e, pela primeira vez, falou-se da condição feminina" - fonte
in folha.uol.com.br/folha/mundo:
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