Interview "What Walaa Wants"
After one of the screenings Johanna and I interviewed Christy Garland, Walaa and Ekram Zubaydi. It was an interesting film and I would really recommend you to watch it!Walaa's answers were translated by Ekram, who was with them for a longer time and also involved in the project.fGR: So first of all: Thank you for this very interesting film! And I wanted to ask you (Christy Garland) how you conceived this idea?CG: It started with the idea of doing a film about anything political and I always start my films with the “who” not the “what”. There are a lot of documentaries you see which are about subjects but I always start by wanting to make a film about an interesting person. All my films follow people very closely and it’s always a very personal story. It’s the journey which they go throug...