The events that launched the Egyptian revolution of 2011 didn’t begin out of the blue on January 25, a fact that director Ibrahim El Batout is keen to remind audiences of with Winter of Discontent. The film lays bare the police state that was Egypt in the final years of the former President Hosni Mubarak’s reign, beginning a few years before the 2011 revolution to offer audiences a glimpse of the systematic torture and harassment that targeted any internal dissidence.
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