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You can’t make a documentary where people aren’t free to speak. And the risk is that you make a film for the jihadists – because they’re the ones who are going to do the talking.

— Abderrahmane Sissako

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It’s the only film of my own that makes me cry. I’ve cried several times watching it.

When I make a film, I’m constantly in doubt and sometimes it shows. But, deep down within myself, as though hidden, I carry absolute conviction that I share with no one.

The most terrible thing about this is that they are people like us. It’s always hard to say. But they are.

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