Summaries

In 2008, we travel to Egypt to tell the story of heavy metal in a conservative Muslim country. We meet the kids in Cairo's tight knit underground music scene who are the film's main characters, including the sons of the country's foremost political dissidents and the Muslim World's first all-female metal band. Living under an oppressive regime, they're denied the basic right to free expression, and risk arrest just for playing their music... Then halfway through our story, a revolution begins, casting them, and us, into the unknown, opening new horizons, and presenting our main characters with a new set of life changing dilemmas.—Anonymous

Three years before the Arab Spring, we traveled to Egypt to film with young rock musicians fighting for free expression. We met a young singer whose family was already risking everything in a fight that would become a revolution, and change the course of history.—Anonymous

Details

Genres
  • Drama
  • Music
  • Documentary
  • News
Release date Apr 3, 2013
Countries of origin United States Egypt
Language English
Production companies Insurgent Media Anthro Films/HMI Productions

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Runtime 1h 12m
Color Color
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