Arabian Spring most powerful at the 35th Cairo Filmfest.

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Since its uprising in January 2011; Arabian revolutions indifferent countries has implemented a strong story lines for many films."Arab Revolutions in Cinema" is a separate section in the 35thCairo International Film Festival where six of those films are competing.

From France comes "Bahrain, the Forbidden Country", afilm by Stephanie Lamorre and is about the struggle of its men and womendemanding more democracy and freedom in a country where others think itsflawless. The people of Bahrain go to the forbidden by those demonstrates in thestreets and risk their lives every day for a year now.

From Egypt comes three films, the first "Eion El HorreyaSharee El Moot- Eyes of Freedom, Street of Death" by Ahmed Sony andRamadan Salah and its about what happened in Moahmed Mahmoud street, where Ministryof the Interior is located where it reports the conflicts that have happenedbetween security guys and protestors.

The second film is "Tareeq Ela Meedan El Tahrir – Way toTahrir Square" by Amr Hussein Abdel Ghany and is about a journey in searchfor the roots of the Egyptian revolution especially within the laborers whichis considered one of the major powers that ended Mubarak's regime.

The third Egyptian film is "El Thawra Khabar - Reporting aRevolution" by Bassam Mortada and stars Nora Younis, Ahmed Ragab, Shaymaa Adel,Samah Abdel Aty and Mostapha Bahgat and is about the true story of six youngEgyptian journalists who lived their life under the Mubarak's corrupted regime.They suddenly find themselves reporting their lifetime by footages they took toreport the revolution while staying alive.

A documentary from Egypt also participates, "Sabah El KhairYa Masr- Good Morning Egypt" by Souheila Battou and is an Egyptian-Algerianproduction. Souheila in her first documentary began filming the revolution fromTunisia and then went to Egypt.

Andfinally from Tunisia comes "Revolution Talks" by Karim Yaqoubi

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