Clash

“Conflict is on the inside.”

Cairo, 2013, in the turmoil that followed the ousting of President Morsi, and a police truck fills with detainees picked up from opposite sides of the unrest. Mohamed Diab shoots the whole film inside that cramped steel box, so supporters and opponents of the government end up pressed together, sharing the heat and the air. Nagwa (Nelly Karim) and her fellow prisoners have only each other to depend on.