Tahir 2011 March 28, 2012

Winner of the UNESCO Prize at the 2011 Venice Film Festival, Tahrir 2011 captures three vantages on the events of the Egyptian Spring, those of the demonstrators in Tahrir Square (the good), the police who were tasked to intervene (the bad), and leader at the time Hosni Mubarek (the politician). Ayten Amin directed the short “the Bad;” exploring the difficult question of why Egyptian police would participate in the violent suppression of their own people.