“Pharaoh Vs the Egyptians” Third International Screening

The third international screening of the documentary Pharoah vs The Egyptians was held at Parramatta’s Riverside Theatres on Saturday during the 4th annual Indie Gems Film Festival.

“I had no intention of being impartial,’’ Saleh said after the screening.

‘‘[Egyptian president Hosni] Mubarak had told his story for 30 years; it was my intention right from the beginning to tell the story of the people.”

The result is an emotive history lesson of the unprecedented waves of mass struggle between January 25, 2011, when protesters first came out onto the streets, and February 11, 2011, when Mubarak stepped down.

Using a dizzying pastiche of still frames, live footage and interviews with activists, the documentary painstakingly chronicles how people from one of the oldest civilizations on earth entered the scene of modern revolutionary history using social media as their only weapon.