Sex in an Egyptian cafe during the revolution: Meet TheWrap's ShortList industry prize winner

By Sharon Waxman LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - In the middle of the Egyptian revolution in 2011, Indian filmmaker Ritesh Batra decided to venture into the excitement and chaos of Cairo. "It was inspiring to me to be there," he explained to TheWrap. "It was a heady time, there was a lot of hope. (President Hosni) Mubarak had stepped down three months before that." He met a young Egyptian actor (Alaa Ezzat) and a female novelist (Mai Abozeed) and they made a short about sex, set in a café in Cairo, which won the Industry Prize in TheWrap's online ShortList Festival on Thursday. ...



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