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No script, no actors, no direction. The cameraman follows the subject.

— Ateyyat El Abnoudy

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Source: Ateyyat El Abnoudy describes her documentary philosophy: she preferred observing real people and real situations rather than creating artificial scenes, allowing reality itself to shape the story.
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