“[The Square] is made in a cinéma vérité style, giving us an up-close view of revolution from the ground. New technologies show us that the voice of young people cannot be silenced in this digital age.”
Armed with “nothing more than cameras, social media, videos posted to YouTube, and a resolute determination to liberate their nation,” the citizens who risked their lives to protest in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in July 2013 are documented in this intimate film about the unprecedented power of social media to effect change.
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