ARIJ - Scent of Revolution

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ARIJ - Scent of Revolution, is a 2014 Egyptian movie, directed by Viola Shafik. with a runtime of 101 minutes.

Overview

ARIJ – Scent of Revolution is an Egyptian documentary that asks a deceptively simple question: what do you do when your revolution fails? Set in a ravaged Egyptian city, the film follows four individuals navigating the aftermath of two upheavals that left the country in ruins rather than in recovery. Anger, illness, depression, and retreat into nostalgia are the available coping mechanisms, each explored with intimate honesty. With no signs of reconstruction on the horizon, the subjects are left suspended between a lost golden past and an uncertain future. ARIJ is a quietly devastating portrait of post-revolutionary disillusionment, grief, and the human cost of broken promises.

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