ByMohamed DiabBorder LinesAn ordinary day, the year is 2013. Egypt descends into chaos following a national uprising and a military coup. While Mursi supporters and military personnel battle it out on the streets, people of various groups find themselves crammed into the back of a police van: Muslim brothers, soldiers, Christians, progressives and conservatives, men and women, violent and non-violent – a concentrate of Egyptian society. Over the course of the day, patience wears thin and tensions rise.
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As viewers, we are at the very centre of the action, and when the truck door finally opens, we, along with everybody else present, want to immediately slam the door closed again. CLASH is an elaborately staged, breathtakingly intimate film poised somewhere between an action-packed drama and an absurd farce.
Summary: Set entirely within the confines of a police van, Clash dramatizes the ongoing political unrest in Egypt two years after the Arab Spring. It’s 2013 and mass protests have led to the ouster of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood by the army.
A series of arrests finds rival demonstrators trapped in a paddywagon together under the threat of impossibly stifling heat. From this simple setup, Mohamed Diab weaves a white-knuckled tale of resistance and shared humanity that artfully evokes the political fault lines in the Arab world’s most populous nation. Kino Lorber.