CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 2013
The Square posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE2013 1h 28m GBR

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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Like Jehane Noujaim’s The Square, it places intimate personal access inside a rapidly shifting political crisis, building tension from street-level activism, institutions, and the uncertainty of democratic change.

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A close, urgent chronicle of a protest movement, with the same immersive proximity to demonstrators and escalating sense of historical stakes that makes The Square so immediate.

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It shares The Square’s fearless political engagement and unnerving observation of power, but channels them through a radically stylized, morally disorienting examination of violence and impunity.

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A quieter companion in spirit to political street documentaries: its measured encounters expose how authoritarian violence persists in ordinary life, sustaining tension through restraint rather than spectacle.

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Its firsthand, agile filmmaking follows Chinese activists under growing state pressure, matching The Square’s closeness to dissenters and its atmosphere of unstable, perilous momentum.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Khalid Abdalla

Khalid Abdalla

Himself