“It was hard at first. But those of us who stuck with it were so happy the first time we managed to ride our bikes by ourselves. It gave us such a feeling of freedom!”
In this wonderful interview with Gaëlle Faure from News Deeply, Mama Agatha remembers how she first started her cycling course in Amsterdam Southeast as well as her own baby steps with the bicycle.
One of the biggest Dutch newspapers, Het Parool, just published another interview with filmmaker Fadi Hindash and reporter Liza van Lonkhuyzen. If you read Dutch, do have a look!
Sarah Goodyear from CityLab, a news source dedicated to the people who are creating the cities of the future, just published a splendid interview with Fadi, the director of Mama Agatha about cycling, migration and hope.
“Normally, most stories about immigration tend to focus on the suffering, which I believe is fair since that is a reality, but my intention was to make a film about someone who was able to turn their suffering and loss into something positive. I believe hope is very important because without it, what is the point of living, whether you are a migrant or not.”