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JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA - DECEMBER 6: (INTERVIEW) Director Yann Demange and Writer Rosa Attab talk about their relationship with Paris: Yann Demange talks about how it's deeply personal, having been born in Paris and going back and forth for years as he had family there, how when he and Rosa Attab met they became close friends and he began to see Paris through a different lens, how when he was young he saw Paris through the lens of his Algerian family, hanging out in Arabic bars, how it was a working class experience, but how Rosa worked with a film company and after his success with "1971" was invited by a film crowd and he began to see Paris differently, re-igniting his relationship with the city, how it was momentous for him that Rosa was of Algerian descent and working in cinema, how he re-engaged with Paris because of their friendship and how the city felt like it was a ghost limb, and Rosa Attab talks about their common heritage, how she could feel Yann Demange was different depending on whether he was in London or in Paris and how the theme of "Dammi" is about getting a city to be yours again at the "Dammi" press junket during the Red Sea International Film Festival 2023 on December 6, 2023 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. (Footage by Rishan Pithwa/Getty Images for The Red Sea International Film Festival)