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This Day Won’t Last

Mouaad el Salem, Belgium, Tunisia, 2020, 25’
New York Film Festival

2020

Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival

2020

Courtisane

2021

Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg

2021

In this urgent diary film about longing for freedom and community, the filmmaker reflects on the individual yet collective experience of growing up queer in Tunisia today. Through personal videos and photographs, the film draws attention to the still-existing Article 230 brought by the French colonisers to criminalise homosexuality.

This Day Won’t Last (Mouaad el Salem, 2020)
This Day Won’t Last (Mouaad el Salem, 2020)
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“Queers Were Here”

Mouaad el Salem’s This Day Won’t Last (2020)

Sanne Jehoul
22.04.2024

This Day Won’t Last carries risk in every shot; through el Salem’s urgency to film, his constraints of what he can film, the aesthetics of lo-fi phone footage, and the images captured on cheap disposable cameras. Even if the undeveloped film can contain desires and identities without danger, even if these clips do not contain immediate reveals, the images we receive are still constrained and chased by fears and threats. However, they are also an assertion of identity and belonging.

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Credits

Camera
Mouaad el Salem
Sound
David Chaloiti
Music
Huda Asfour
Producer
Mouaad el Salem, Nour Al Amal
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documentary politics portrait queer

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Ov, France, 2020, 10’

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I Am Good At Karate

Jess Dadds, United Kingdom, 2021, 11’

Portrait of a young teenager with mental health issues who is passionate about karate. They wander around a housing estate in East Kent, locked in verbal and physical battles with a hallucinatory demon.

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Felipe Casanova, Belgium, Switzerland, 2023, 17’

A broken phone and the digital memory of a broken queer relationship. Through the careful manipulation of discarnate metal components and the filmmaker’s attentive look at an intimate archive, a fading first love surfaces. Loveboard is a playful reflection on what remains.

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Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory

Louis Lumière, France, 1895, 1’

A man opens the large gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France, in 1895. Through the gate and a smaller door next to it, workers stream out for lunch. Once all the workers have left the factory, the gatekeeper closes the gate again.

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The Jungle Knows You Better Than You Do

Juanita Onzaga, Belgium, Colombia, 2017, 20’

Two siblings roam the mystical landscapes of Colombia, searching for their dead father's spirit. Their journey takes them from the city of Bogotá to the jungle, through realms of thought and deep into their haunted dreams.

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Waithood

Louisiana Mees-Fongang, Belgium, 2019, 21’

In Athens, five youngsters avoid waiting for an empty future by seeking entertainment in the luxurious Airbnb establishments that one of them is cleaning for a meagre fee.

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