Look Again. Jan 19 – 29, 2012 Park City, Utah

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.

½ REVOLUTION is a visceral, fiercely immediate, handheld testimony, told through a string of spontaneous stolen moments that allow the viewer the front seat ride of a lifetime in a revolution that continues to unfold before our eyes.
- D.C.

Jesper Jarl Pedersen
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Omar Shargawi was raised by his Danish mother and Palestinian father in Copenhagen. His first directorial feature, Go in Peace, Jamil (2008), won several film festival awards: the Tiger Award at Rotterdam, the Church of Sweden Film Award and FIPRESCI Prize at Gothenburg, and the Grand Prix at Warsaw. My Father from Haifa (2010) was the director’s personal documentary debut. It won the Muhr Arab Documentary Special Jury Prize and the people’s choice award at Dubai, and the Film Academy of Denmark’s “Robert.” Karim El Hakim is an Egyptian American director and director of photography based in Cairo. His camerawork has contributed to award-winning political documentaries about the Middle East, including My Trip to Al Qaeda (2010), Giran (Neighbors) (2009), and Egypt We Are Watching You (2008). El Hakim is active in the Cairo independent film community with the award-winning shorts Ein Semeka (Fisheye), Miraculum, and Beit Min Lahm (House of Flesh), which earned him the Egyptian State Prize for best cinematography in 2006.