Watch Mohamed Fahmy: Half Free

Set against the spectre of growing global terrorism, and in an era of vicious attacks on press freedoms around the world, Mohamed Fahmy: Half Free is a character study of a Canadian-Egyptian journalist who went from covering one of the biggest stories in the world to becoming the story. Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker David Paperny spent a year filming Fahmy. In the end, what Paperny discovered is that Fahmy can’t let the story go, and has become an international advocate for press freedoms.

Mohamed Fahmy: Half Free is a 2017 documentary with a runtime of 71 hours.