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I lacked role models so badly when I was growing up.
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Models
Role Models
Growing Up Up Role
Badly
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All my life, I have juggled two cultures: Senegalese and French.
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All My Life
Life My Life Two
Cultures
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Love and self-esteem are constructed through likes and followers.
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Followers
Self Esteem
Constructed
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I think where policy fails cinema can help to bring people together.
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Fails
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When I was young, I also saw a lot of injustices around me lived by women.
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Injustices
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Cuties' is universal, and it raises concerns that involve all world societies.
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Raises
Concerns
Involve
Societies
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We, as adults, have not given children the tools to grow up healthy in our society.
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Healthy
Tools
Adult
Grow Up
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Streamers are a great way to get my stories out and share my messages with more people.
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Messages
Great People Way
Great Way
More People
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It's important to be vigilant at all stages of the making of a film. The theme of a work should be represented properly.
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Theme
Vigilant
Properly
Stages
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For me, what counts the most is my film. I can express myself and therefore take care of myself through my art. Cinema not only heals me, but it can change the world.
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Change The World
Counts
Heals
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When young girls can get 400,000 likes by doing a sexy selfie... we have to offer them another way of being. To dream of being female astronauts, engineers or presidents.
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Another Way
Engineers
Sexy
Astronauts
Presidents
Young Girls
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I want to say to this guy and everyone who thinks that femininity means you don't have the power to think, to write, lead and create, women are capable of doing everything.
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Capable
Femininity
Women Are
Lead
Thinks
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Television is a sort of mirror of society, but for me, I never saw my reflection in it. Which makes it quite difficult afterwards to open up all the imaginative possibilities.
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Imaginative
Reflection
Society Mirror Reflection
Afterwards
Mirror
Possibilities
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Today you have that exposition of your body on social media and you also have this big competition of finding 'likes' and followers and that is for me a new kind of finding love.
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Followers
Exposition
New Kind
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I would never judge another woman. For me, being a feminist means that even if we don't agree on everything, we should fight for each woman to be free to choose who she wants to be.
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Another Woman
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We ask these young girls to grow up too fast. In the society where they grow up, they are asked to grow up too fast, and everything pushes them in that direction. The media creates pressure.
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Creates
Pushes
Young Girls
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I was at a community event in Paris a few years ago when a group of young girls came on the stage dressed and dancing in a very risque way. They were only 11 years old, and their performance was shocking.
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Shocking
Dressed
Young Girls
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When I was 10 and 11, my dream was to be a boy. I saw that there were so many injustices that women had to live with around me. I didn't want to have that; I wanted to have the freedom that little boys had.
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Injustices
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Puberty is such a confusing time. You are still a child, with all that wonderful naivete and innocence, but your body is changing, and you're self-conscious and curious about its impact on others all at the same time.
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Innocence
Naivete
Puberty
Self Conscious
Time Body Your
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We're used to saying that women in other cultures are oppressed, but the question that I had when making the film was: Isn't the objectification of a woman's body that we often see in Western culture another kind of oppression?
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Objectification
Oppressed
Western Culture
Cultures
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What happens is young girls see images of women being objectified, and the more the woman becomes an object the more followers and likes she has - they see that as a role model and try to imitate these women, but they're not old enough to know what they're doing.
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Followers
Women Woman Doing
Images
Imitate
Object
Old Enough
Role Model
Young Girls
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I met over a hundred preteens who told me their stories. I asked them how they felt about their femininity in today's society. I wanted to know how they dealt with their self-image at a time when social media is so important, and they have access to so much information and so many images.
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Femininity
Dealt
Images
Self-Image
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