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Sunday, 4 September 2016

Clash [Eshtebak] is Egypt’s pick for the Oscars

Eshtebak (Clash) was selected as Egypt’s submission in the Oscars’ foreign-language category for 2017 (trailer, runtime 01:37). The film, critically acclaimed at the Cannes film festival, was described by critic Deborah Young “as ‘powerful and very disturbing,’ remarking on how it refused to take sides, a move that raised it ‘about a purely political discussion in favor of a sweeping criticism of prejudice and inhumanity’.” The Hollywood Reporter says “Egypt may not yet have had a foreign-language nomination, but it enjoyed its first Academy nomination in 2013 when Jehane Noujaim’s The Square – chronicling the events during the civil war – found its way into the final five of the documentary category.” Civil war in Egypt? Father forgive them for they know neither their geography nor their current events.

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