Tahrir Ben-Ghazi
year
2011
Role
Director, Producer, & Editor
Awards
Won Best International Documentary for the short documentary at Hannover International Film Festival, 2011
Client
Independent
Tahrir-BenGhazi is a 26-minute documentary film about a young rap musician and filmmaker who participated in the Egyptian revolution.
After the success of the Egyptian revolution by the fall of Mubarak and his regime, other Arab countries joined a big Arab revolt against their rulers following the peaceful Egyptian model “selmeya selmeya”, among the first countries after Tunisia and Egypt was Libya.
Osama takes us on a journey of discovering Libya, raising the question, why did people revolt in Libya? What do we know about Libya? What misconceptions do we have and the writer included of the Libyan people?
The movie also raises the question of why the protests turned from a peaceful protest to an armed demonstration. Taking us from Benghazi to the battlefronts in Ras Lanof and Benjawad and putting his life in danger.
Osama participates with the Libyan people- whom he felt as his family- in their fight against Gaddafi and his mercenaries. While we are on the battlefront we come to know what kind of experience the revolutionaries have or rather don’t have in the military field.
The movie ends with Osama’s voice-over saying that he doesn’t know where else he is going, but he will continue standing beside others who are fighting for freedom till the end.