A biography for Maimouna Doucourehasn’t been written yet.
“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?”
“I think where policy fails cinema can help to bring people together.”
“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.”
“We need cinema to know each other and love each other.”
“I lacked role models so badly when I was growing up.”
“I really wanted to show the suffering of women and particularly of children because, for me, we often forget to think about them and speak to them.”