( CNN ) -- A serving Egyptian police officer describes firing tear gas into crowds of protesters trying to reach Tahrir Square during the country 's revolution in January . `` I just had a job to do , '' he says . `` I had my orders , a mission . '' Another describes himself and fellow Central Security officers as `` bogeymen . '' `` We suppressed people and made them feel terrorized , '' he admits . `` But if I did n't do it , someone else would do it in my place . '' These rarely-heard voices from Egypt 's revolution appear in a documentary film called `` Tahrir 2011 : The Good , The Bad and The Politician , '' which has made waves at the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals . At its first ever screening , in Venice , the film won the C.I.C.T . UNESCO `` Enrico Fulchignoni '' Award . A review in Hollywood Reporter : `` Shot from the demonstrators ' viewpoint , the first part of 'Tahrir 2011 , The Good , the Bad and the Politician ' captures the passion and excitement of the sit-ins in Cairo 's Tahrir Square far better than Western TV cameras . '' Egyptian elections to start Nov. 28 . The film is divided into three sections by three different Egyptian directors , Tamer Ezzat , Ayten Amin and Amr Salama . `` The Good '' covers stories of the protesters , `` The Bad '' is interviews with police officers and `` The Politician '' gives a light-hearted `` 10 steps to becoming a dictator '' based on interviews with allies and opponents of former president Hosni Mubarak . The police were often feared during Mubarak 's time in power and some were accused of excessive violence in their attempts to suppress the revolution . The government announced in July that it was firing hundreds of high-ranking police officers , including 27 accused of killing demonstrators during the revolt . A police officer accused of killing 20 protesters during a January 28 demonstration has been sentenced to death . Amin , who directed the section on the police officers , said : `` I met up with 12 officers and the one thing they all had in common was they were shaky and kept changing their minds about doing interviews . `` This was a few weeks after the events and they were being attacked everywhere . Some of them agreed to do it and on the morning of the interview I would get a message saying they could n't do it . '' Amin , 32 , finally secured interviews with three serving officers and one retired officer . Some were filmed anonymously , while others gave their names . She said : `` All the officers had the idea they were protecting their country . That 's what they were educated to believe . `` Some of them believed what they were doing was wrong , but that they had to follow orders . `` Out of six-hour interviews , the last 30 minutes was usually the most important because they finally became honest at the end . At the beginning they were just saying the things we knew from TV . '' Egypt 's banned graphic novel to be published in English . For his section on `` The Good , '' Ezzat , 40 , made use of footage supplied by members of the public to a hastily erected `` media center '' in Tahrir Square during the revolution . Ezzat said : `` By the end of the 18 days there was a wealth of material from the protestors themselves of the action . `` I tracked down some of the characters shown and took them back to the location of the events . `` I thought geography was very important to the story . Every character in my film reached the square by a different route and has a different story . '' His characters included an upper-middle-class girl who had never been involved in activism before but witnessed the death of a protester next to her , a Muslim Brotherhood member , a doctor who helped set up a field hospital , and photographer who gave up his dream of a scholarship in Denmark to return to Egypt and document the revolution . Ezzat said : `` There was an endless number of interesting stories to tell . I wished my piece could have been much longer . I wanted to show the diversity of the participants . '' The final section `` The Politician , '' by Salama , uses interviews with opposition politicians such as Mohamed ElBaradei and author Alaa Al Aswany to delve into the psyche of Mubarak . The directors all used their own experiences in their films . Egyptian film shines light on sexual harassment . Amin said : `` January 25 was the first time I had ever been to a protest . I had n't intended to go , but a friend called me and told me I should come . `` I live near Tahrir Square , so I walked there . During that first day there were 45,000 people and I had never seen crowds like that . `` After midnight , the police began to attack . We were running everywhere and some of my friends were arrested . `` I saw a police officer beating a guy . I could n't believe all the violence . I think that 's the reason I wanted to make the film . '' She added : `` I told one ex-officer that I was there and they were very violent . He told me at the time they did n't see the protesters as people . '' Ezzat said : `` During the 18 days , I forgot that I was a filmmaker because I was very emotionally involved as an Egyptian . At the end of the 18 days I remembered that I was a filmmaker . ''
`` Tahrir 2011 : The Good , The Bad and The Politician '' wins Venice film award on its first screening . Three sections cover interviews with protesters , police officers and people close to Hosni Mubarak . Many police officers , some still serving , changed their minds just before filming started . The police were often feared during Mubarak 's time in power .