The Square (2013 film)

The Square (El-Midan)
Directed byJehane Noujaim
Produced byKarim Amer
StarringKhalid Abdalla
Ahmed Hassan
Dina Abdullah
Magdy Ashour
Sherif Boray
Aida El-Kashef
CinematographyJehane Noujaim
Muhammad Hamdy
Ahmed Hassan
Cressida Trew
Edited byChristopher de la Torre
Mohammed el Manasterly
Karim Fanous
Pierre Haberer
Pedro Kos
Stefan Ronowicz
Shazeya Serag
Angie Wegdan Yasmin Kamal
Music byJonas Colstrup
Score:
H. Scott Salinas
Production
companies
Distributed byGathrFilms
Participant Media
Release dates
  • January 18, 2013 (2013-01-18) (Sundance)
  • September 6, 2013 (2013-09-06) (TIFF)
  • October 25, 2013 (2013-10-25) (United States)
Running time
108 minutes
CountriesEgypt
United States
LanguagesEgyptian Arabic
English
Budget$1.5 million
Box office$124,244

The Square (Arabic: الميدان, romanized: Al-Maydan) is a 2013 Egyptian-American documentary film by Jehane Noujaim, which depicts the Egyptian Crisis until 2013, starting with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 at Tahrir Square. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards. It also won three Emmy Awards at the 66th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, out of four for which it was nominated.