Still Here

Still Here is a poetic short film that stands against suicide, despair, and the quiet urge to give up.
Rather than narrating a conventional story, the film observes emotional states—disconnection, exhaustion, loss, and survival—through fragments of everyday life and moments of inner collapse. Darkness appears not as drama, but as a lived reality. The return is not triumphant, but necessary.
The film argues that staying alive is not weakness.
It is responsibility.
Still Here affirms life as a fragile, irreplaceable gift—one that deserves care even when hope feels distant. The film ends not with resolution, but with endurance.

  • Shorna Abedin
    Director
  • Shorna Abedin
    Writer
  • Shorna Abedin
    Producer
  • Shorna Abedin
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 50 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 27, 2026
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Liftoff global Network
Director Biography - Shorna Abedin

Shorna Abedin is an independent filmmaker and visual artist from Bangladesh. With a background in literature and fine arts, her work explores inner states of being, emotional silence, and human endurance through minimal, observational cinema.
Her films are rooted in real life experiences and often focus on themes of survival, responsibility, and the unseen struggles of women. She avoids traditional storytelling in favor of visual restraint, allowing images, sound, and absence to carry meaning.
Still Here reflects her ongoing interest in cinema as a space for ethical reflection and emotional truth rather than spectacle.

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Director Statement

I made Still Here as a response to despair.
This film is not about explaining pain, nor about romanticizing suffering. It is about standing against suicide and the idea that disappearing is a solution. Many people live quietly on the edge of giving up, carrying responsibilities they cannot abandon even when they are exhausted.
I wanted to say something simple and honest:
Life is a gift, even when it feels unbearably heavy.
Choosing to stay alive is not always about hope. Sometimes it is about duty—to oneself, to ordinary beauty, to mornings that still arrive. Still Here is my way of saying that endurance itself can be an act of courage.