The Square (2013 film)
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| Directed by | Jehane Noujaim |
| Produced by | Karim Amer |
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Khalid Abdalla Ahmed Hassan Dina Abdullah Magdy Ashour Sherif Boray Aida Elkashef |
| Music by | Jonas Colstrup Score: H. Scott Salinas |
| Cinematography | Jehane Noujaim Muhammad Hamdy Ahmed Hassan Cressida Trew |
| Edited by | Christopher de la Torre Mohammed el Manasterly Karim Fanous Pierre Haberer Pedro Kos Stefan Ronowicz Shazeya Serag Angie Wegdan |
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| Distributed by | GathrFilms Participant Media |
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108 minutes |
| Country | Egypt United States |
| Language | Arabic English |
| Budget | $1.5 million |
| Box office | $124,244 |
The Square is a 2013 Egyptian-American documentary film by Jehane Noujaim, which depicts the ongoing Egyptian Crisis until 2013, starting with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 at Tahrir Square. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards. It also won three Emmy Awards at the 66th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, out of four for which it was nominated.
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. Due to the ongoing nature of the Egyptian Revolution, Noujaim updated the ending of the film over the summer of 2013. 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. 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. The final version was modified to take political developments into the final version, as released on Netflix.
The Square received universal acclaim, currently holding a 100% "fresh" rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. On Metacritic, the film has an 84/100 rating, indicating "universal acclaim".
A.O. Scott from the New York Times wrote, "The Square, while it records the gruesome collision of utopian aspirations with cold political realities, is not a despairing film. It concludes on a note of resolve grounded in the acknowledgment that historical change can be a long, slow process."
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