She is planning to film in either Senegal or Cameroon.
Watch on Deadline
Bernard wrote it after an experience he had in Nigeria on a construction site.
There are two white men, probably coming from England, a white woman coming from Europe.
Claire DenisGetty Images
Denis has ruled out the project reuniting her withHigh Lifestar Robert Pattinson.
Denis is attending the Qumra talent and project incubator event as one of its Qumra Master mentors.
I needed the money, and it was not like it is today.
There werent opportunities for a young woman like me to direct, she said.
I didnt want to be a pioneer.
I did it because I felt like it.
I wanted to be me.
And it was so important for me that I accepted to suffer for it, she said.
Im happy that its easier now for woman and Im proud to be a woman.
Denis pointed to long-time protege Mati Diops recent Berlinale Golden Bear forDahomey, as a sign of progress.
Its the complete society that is evolving.
Mati has grown into a woman of today with two cultures.
She has something in her that is very precious and shes bold, she said.
This is an important move.
The filmmaker suggested that there was still much to be done in the name of womens rights.
In conflict, the first victims are women.
Everywhere, not only in Israel, or in the West Bank and Gaza.
I was asking myself, why these screaming headlines, she said.
Since the beginning of the world, raping a woman is the first predation possible.
You need a gun, a knife but you might also rape a woman.
