Egypt Revolution Doc "Ana wel Agenda" Heads to Festival in Senegal

The Egyptian documentary "Ana wel Agenda" (The Agenda and I) from director Neveen Shalaby will be shown at the first Francophone Film Festival in Senegal, beginning next month on July 29. 

The documentary, which delves into the well-known and often humorous conspiracy theories surrounding the January 25 uprising, makes an ironic jab with its title, referring to the Mubarak regime's rhetoric that revolutionaries in Tahrir in the winter of 2011 had foreign agendas, and funding. Shalaby trains the eye of the camera not only to those groundbreaking days in Tahrir, but the demonstrations and vigils in the preceding years that paved the way to the 2011 revolution.

"The Agenda and I" has been making the festival rounds in the region. It was shown at the fourth Baghdad Film Festival and the Addis International Film Festival in Addis Ababa. 

Shalaby also stated that although she was pleased the film would be screening at the Francophone Festival, she would not be able to attend due to it coinciding with the Tamarod protests planned for June 30, which she'll be taking part in.