Ahmed Nour, a 29 year-old filmmaker from Egypt, received a $5,000 award for his project “Waves”

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

In the early 1980s, Mubarak became president of Egypt and our generation has lived under his rule for the last 30 years. We finally managed to force him from power on February 11th 2011, shortly after the January 25th Revolution. “Waves” is a documentary in seven chapters relating the story of Suez, home to the internationally renowned canal, and the city that triggered the revolution, leading the media to call it “the flame of the Egyptian revolution”.

Artfully combining documentary footage, scenes depicting the director’s family members in animation, deep psychological analysis and first-person narration, the director introduces us to his home city Suez and the generation he represents which created the revolution. The film reveals hidden facts and incidents behind the revolution and leads up to the key moment when Mubarak faced criminal charges, a sequence of events that changed the course of history and gave hope to an entire generation.