hold on to her
- English, French (français), Dutch, Flemish (Nederlands, Vlaams), Kurdish (Kurdî, کوردی)
- Belgium
- 80 min
In 2018, two-year-old Mawda Shawri, daughter of Phrast and Shamden and sister to Hama, was shot dead by a Belgian police officer during a car chase. In 2023, more than 40 people, both undocumented and documented resident activists, assembled in Brussels to film a collective hearing of documents from Mawda’s case and reactions to her killing. Together, these produce counter-forensic evidence of this deadly tale of migration, and build a lived social infrastructure of care, solidarity and struggle.
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