This Day Won’t Last

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This Day Won’t Last, is a 2020 Tunisian movie, directed by Mouaad el Salem. with a runtime of 25 minutes.

Overview

This Day Won't Last is a Tunisian documentary-hybrid that blurs the boundaries between self-portrait and collective testimony. Created through remote collaboration, the film unfolds at the intersection of artistic necessity and revolutionary fear, capturing the tension that defined Tunisia's post-uprising cultural climate. A day becomes a lifetime, a young man could be an older woman, and a nightmare might reveal itself as a dream — the film thrives on productive ambiguity. Clandestine yet sincere, it transforms endings into new beginnings, offering a meditation on resistance, filmmaking, and the fragile act of bearing witness.

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