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.

-- Dir. Mouaad el Salem - 26min - 2020 - Belgium, Tunisia --

"A day that could also be a life....Clandestine, but coming straight from the heart: an end that could also lead to a new beginning." - DocLisboa

"A refracted self-portrait in the form of a video diary....veers from nightmare to fantasy to the banalities of everyday life" - New York Film Festival

"feels necessarily both slack and urgent, disembodied and deeply inhabited. A white curtain flutters in a door frame, the fronds of a palm appear stubbornly inert, and a colony of ants scurries on terrazzo tile; all are images that betray a life lived in fear, in waiting" - Senses of Cinema

"a document of...repression, evidence of the fear of being filmed, of baring one's heart....Mouaad el Salem uses domestic videos to convey this impossibility of a complete portrait" - Desist Film