
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.
|24.04.2018
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"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.