25th Annual Woodstock Film Festival

The Global Majority

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Riveting depictions of the humanity at stake when the desire to live a normal life can be upended.

ABOUT THE FILM:

And Still, It Remains is a meditation on the afterlife of French nuclear toxicity in Algeria through a community shaped but not circumscribed by its history. In Mertoutek, a village nestled in the Hoggar Mountains of Algeria’s Southern Sahara, we spend time with the Escamaran community as they narrate their accounts and understanding of time, toxic colonialism and how to survive the end of your world. Summoning the landscape as a witness, the film also affords the residents some distance from colonial forms of visual capture and challenges visibility as the currency for political redress.


ABOUT THE FILMMAKER:

Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah are a directing duo dedicated to exploring race, migration, the environment and other ongoing legacies of colonialism through film. Together they also co-founded Other Cinemas, a project dedicated to supporting Black and non-white communities in London through free film screenings and a free, year-long film school.

  • Year
    2023
  • Runtime
    28 minutes
  • Language
    Arabic
  • Country
    UK, Algeria
  • Premiere
    New York Premiere
  • Director
    Arwa Aburawa, Turab Shah
  • Producer
    Turab Shah, Arwa Aburawa
  • Executive Producer
    Arwa Aburawa, Turab Shah
  • Cinematographer
    Turab Shah
  • Editor
    Arwa Aburawa
  • Sound Design
    Sami El-Enany
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