What is interesting is that in the history of film, and the amount of films from the 20th century and from the 19th century that are available today tell a one-sided history. There is a whole part of humanity that is not given the opportunity to see themselves in film, and who cannot understand their own history through cinema, because they weren’t given the opportunity to make the images themselves. They see themselves and their ancestors and their grandparents depicted as savages, as people who don’t have a voice, people who are filmed like animals, people who are exoticized and who are part of the colonial narratives. Once there have been filmmakers from other countries, from the colonial countries, we have been able to start seeing people from the colonies owning their own narrative. It was, for example, very important during the Algerian revolution, when people from Algeria fought the French who colonized them, because they were supported by French filmmakers who gave them the tools to tell about their revolutions from their perspectives.
