Sami Mustafa: Cinema can be more powerful than politics in changing people’s lives
Award winning filmmaker discusses the misleading portrayal of Roma in film and the next generation attempting to change it.
"We basically collected 100 movies from the 1920s onward; the problem is that until the 1970s very few films were made about Roma."
"Lots of filmmakers tend to show the worst parts — the clichés that everybody knows."
"With the cinema you have all those stories; it is a powerful tool to change people’s minds by looking at different stories, by looking at different people."
Dafina Halili
Dafina Halili is a senior journalist at K2.0, covering mainly human rights and social justice issues. Dafina has a master’s degree in diversity and the media from the University of Westminster in London, U.K..
This story was originally written in English.