HOLD ON TO HER

By Robin VANBESIEN

FLANDERS IMAGE - as PROMO

Experimental - Completed 2024

Activists bear witness in the case of a child migrant killed during a police chase in Belgium.

    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • Experimental, Documentary
    • Countries
    • BELGIUM
    • Duration
    • 80 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Robin VANBESIEN
    • Producer(s)
    • Steven DHOEDT (Visualantics Productions)
    • Synopsis
    • n 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.