An alliance of young artists feel it’s their duty to constantly remind their fellow citizens of the democratic and liberal ideals of the ongoing revolution. As a result of their social commitment, they will play a key role in building the new state. After their victory against tear gas and live ammunition, the young musicians, filmmakers, graphic artists and poets are using their strongest weapons — words, music and pictures — against all dangerous ideas of the past. What they have reached in the Tahrir Square, they are now hoping to achieve for the whole country – even if the current political situation is more challenging than ever before …

Through the active support of artists, the unrest that reached Egypt as a result of the Tunisian uprising succeeded to become a revolution. Many of them have been fighting for a change of mentality for years. During the 18 days of the demonstrations exactely year ago they encouraged the people to stay on the streets; through their art work they lend them a voice and a visible way to express their dreams. With the help of „Revolutionary Caravans“ they are still working on a satisfying outcome that will assure the people of Egypt to gain the freedom, justice and pride that they’ve been asking for. Their mission: creating free minds, their project: the art of revolution.

This films portrays a selection of well established and upcoming Egyptian artists who create all kinds of art work: graffiti, music, films, plays, novels and so on. Some of them started many years before the ‘Arab Spring’ to use their work to call for the political and social changes they felt to be necessary. Some of them only recently became political as a result of the demonstrations and the new military government and became a living example of the mind-shifting quality of the current political climate. And some of them who are suffering from the pseudo success of the Egyptian revolution totally disagree about being a political activist.