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I have a very Oulipo way of working. I give myself a constraint, and then I have total freedom in the margins."

— Yto Barrada

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We want to educate people, but in a pleasurable way.

The social dimension of filmgoing is important, because social mixing doesn't happen much here.

Because in Tangier everyone is nostalgic for this period they never knew – a period that I myself didn't know.

"Dyeing is like a witch practice of learning recipes, discovering old recipes that are lost and asking people to teach you what they know.

The way I remember things, the unreliable narratives, are part of oral history.

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