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Amr Waked and Salah Hanafy • Actors

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Egyptian film Winter of Discontentby Ibrahim El Batout, presents three characters whose lives are turned upside down by the Revolution of 25 January 2011. Shown at the Venice Film Festival, this feature film takes us back to the bloodiest moments of the Mubarak regime and helps us to understand why the fate of a nation was decided in Tahrir Square.

Cineuropa and the Euromed Audiovisual Programme of the European Commission are to hold a screening of Winter of Discontent on Wednesday, November 28, 2012 at 6:30pm at the European Parliament.

The screening will be followed by a debate around Arab Revolution. Cineuropa is associated to this initiative that is to address an issue of primary importance for the peaceful development of relations with our southern neighbours.

The debate is to be held in the presence of Isabelle Durant, Vice-President of the European Parliament, Doris Pack, President of the Committee on Culture, Pier Antonio Panzeri, President of the Delegation for relations with countries of the Maghreb and the Arab Maghreb Union, Niccolò Rinaldi, Member of the Committee on International Trade.

It is to bring together Dora Bouchoucha, Tunisian producer and the president of the Fonds Cinéma du Monde ("World Film Fund"), Hinde Boujemaa, a Tunisian filmmaker who made a notable film about the Tunisian revolution, Ibrahim El Batout, one of Egypt's most prominent film directors, and Amr Waked, the main actor and producer of the film.

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