BlackStar Film Festival

Anthropogenic (Shorts)

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Journeys through various man-made climate disasters, and a profile of the communities at the center who are left to live with it.


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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.

  • Runtime
    28 minutes
  • Language
    Arabic
  • Country
    Algeria, United Kingdom
  • Premiere
    North America
  • Awards
    Best Short Documentary Nominee
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  • Director
    Arwa Aburawa, Turab Shah
  • Cinematographer
    Turab Shah
  • Editor
    Arwa Aburawa
  • Sound Design
    Sami El-Enany