She added that since she and her husband, composer Khaled Mouzanar, a member of the “Un Certain Regard” jury, received the invitation to the festival, she had been living through “a whirlwind of contradictions, emotions, and uncertainty.” She then emphasized: “But I remember that this small country, which barely appears on the map, stubbornly continues, despite wounds and injustice, to scream, sing, write, make films, and love life, as if art has become our final act of resistance.”
