This day won't last
Synopsis
Authentic and raw, This day won’t last is a diary film meditating on longing for future, love, freedom, opportunities, and community. Through personal home-made videos and photographs, the director reflects on what it means to be young and queer in Tunisia. It draws attention to the still existing article 230 brought by the French colonizers to criminalize homosexuality, with hopes for a better future. From fear to uncertainty this film creates an intimate and touching story, a personal yet collective experience.
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Équipe
Directed and photography: Mouaad el Salem
Sound editing and mixing: David Chaloiti
Music: Huda Asfour
Line producer: Nour Al Amal
Promotion & distribution: Philippe Cotte, Florence Peeraer, Alice Riou
This film was developed in the framework of the CVB/SCAM writing workshop. With the support of Mophradat.
Festivals et prix
2020
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11th Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, Athens, GR
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Short Circuit Film Club, Glasgow, UK
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58 Gijón International Film Festival, Gijón/Xixón, ESP - Premio Jurado Joven al Mejor Cortometraje de la Sección Oficial
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ASTERISK FILM KLUBB, Bergen, NO
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Doclisboa ‘20, Lissabon, PT
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Cámara Lúcida - Encuentros Cinematográficos, ECU
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24th Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Winterthur, CH - Grand Prize
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Africa in Motion festival, Glasgow, UK
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The queer qandī Journeys and Destinations film fest, Cambridge, UK
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Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris, FR - l'un des 7 prix, non-hiérarchiques, de la Compétition Internationale
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HOMOGRAFÍA, Le Tri Postal, Brussels, BE
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Currents - Remains to be seen, 58th New York Film Festival, New York, USA
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New Cinema, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, Berwick, UK
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Int. competition - Looking for home, Videoex, Zurich, CH - special mention
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Decoratelier, Brussel, BE
2021
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BIEFF retrospective, Timișoara, RO
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Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK
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DIALOGUES: Calcutta International LGBTQIA Film & Video Festival, IND
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Pink Screens, Brussels, BE
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Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, RO - award for the best visual concept
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Visite Filmfestival#9: we fight back, Antwerpen, BE
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Filmer en Tunisie, cinéma La Clef, Paris, FR, 8/11
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One world, Bratislava, SK
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Arab Film Festival, Michigan, USA
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International Queer and Migrant Film Festival, Amsterdam, NL
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FLiMM # 5 - Festival Libre du Moyen Métrage, Paris, FR
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Courtisane, Gent, BE
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Soura Film Festival, Berlin, GER
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Caïro Video Festival, EG
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Shasha powered by Habibi Collective, VOD, worldwide
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Zurich film festival, CH
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Les Mains Gauches queer feminist festival, Marseille, FR
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Leiden Shorts, NL
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Film-Fest Malans, CH
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The Binding Element, Vilnius-Nida-Klaipeda, LT
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57th Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, Pesaro, IT - special mention youth jury
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Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, D - Hamburg Short Film Award
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Festival de Cine Africano de Tarifa, ESP
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La fête du slip - festival des sexualités, Lausanne, CH - Prix du public
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26th Vilnius IFF, Vilnius, LT
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67th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, GER
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Go Short – International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, NL - Award for best European Short documentary
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Colloque international Editing Arts, HEAD, Genève, CH
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Punto de Vista, Int. Documentary FF of Navarra, Pamplona, ESP - Youth Prize for Best Film
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VIDEONALE.18 – Festival for Video and Time-Based Arts, Bonn, GER
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Woche der Kritik, Berlin, GER
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18th London Short film Festival, London, UK
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Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, GER
2022
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Lago Film Fest, Lago, IT - Special Mention
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Berlin Revolution Film Festival – Allemagne
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Lisbon City Council x Doclisboa on Student Movements – Portugal
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Arab wave new generation video – Suisse
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Lago Film Fest – Italie
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L’Age d’or - Cinematek de Bruxelles – Belgique
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Les inattendus – France
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Queers in shorts - Cambridge Arts Picturehouse – Angleterre
Presse
- Q&A avec Mouaad el Salem by Riham Sheble
- Moouad el Salem & Nour Al Amal "in conversation" with Christina Demetriou ( Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2021 programmer)
- CIAK Magazine by Emanuele Bucci
- DesistFilm by Mónica Delgado
- Selection committee text by Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris
- Duels by Giuseppe Gariazzo
- Interview by Miki Ambrozy