“My family history is made of migration; it’s something that’s part of my own complexity.”

—  Mati Diop

Source: On her family background that includes an immigrant parent in “Atlantics director Mati Diop: ‘As a mixed-race girl, there’s a visible and invisible side of you'” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/09/atlantics-director-mati-diop-as-a-mixed-race-girl-theres-always-a-visible-and-invisible-side-of-you in The Guardian (2019 Nov 9)

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