The world premiere of the impressive ‘Trapped’ and the searing Egyptian film ‘Clash’ Two taut, tense thrillers set in confined spaces were the high points of day six of the festival.ClashNorth Africa was the setting for one of the great political films, Battle of Algiers (1966). Now, 50 years later, comes another searing, almost impossibly realistic street-level view of political conflict. Most of the action in Mohamed Diab’s Clash takes place within—or is viewed from the windows of—a police van that acquires various participants in the 2013 clashes in Egypt: members of the warring Muslim Brotherhood and pro-army factions, journalists and a policeman. Having captured the conflict in microcosm, Diab refuses to simplify it, showing again and again how regular folk, even after showing glimpses of fellow-feeling, will retreat to their hardened beliefs.

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