i m sure you would love to believe that that film is like a museum piece. like it s no longer relevant. but does it feel that way to you? no. i would love to. ..to think the opposite. i would love to think that each of my movies are relevant forever and will be remembered forever. but i guess what i meant was, wouldn t it be great if some of the issues. were not. yes. ..you had exposed were no longer issues? the problem is that i make political movies. and i did a movie like ten years ago, 15 years ago that s back on the news today because we have a revolt in new caledonia. that s a film called rebellion. rebellion, yeah. so, you know, that s, when you do political movies, either you re totally wrong and you re not relevant or you re right and nobody s listening. so, so that s, erm, that s. that was the case with rebellion, that was the case with la haine. but here we sit talking in paris. you live in paris. does it feel like paris still has a profound problem with, for examp
around the iraq and afghanistan wars endangered lives. wikileaks, founded in 2006, claims to have published more than 10 million documents in what the us government described as one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the united states. assange and his lawyers have long claimed that the case was politically motivated. i spoke to nomia iqbal. nomia, you have been following this. tell us about the agreement. it is interesting. although he has been injail in the uk since 2019, the actual story ofjulian assange has been running for more than a decade, hasn t it? so his wikileaks website rose to prominence in 2010. you mentioned there this breach that the americans said was the largest of its kind in us military history. wikileaks released more than 90,000 classified military documents on the afghanistan war and also released more than 400,000 secret documents on the iraq war and he s long been accused of putting american operatives lives at ris
welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is three decades since you made la haine hate. i m sure you would love to believe that that film is like a museum piece. like its no longer relevant. but does it feel that way to you? no. i would love to. ..to think the opposite. i would love to think that each of my movies are relevant forever and will be remembered forever. but i guess what i meant was, wouldn t it be great if some of the issues. were not. yes. ..you had exposed were no longer issues? the problem is that i make political movies. and i did a movie like ten years ago, 15 years ago that s back on the news today because we have a revolt in new caledonia. that s a film called rebellion. rebellion, yeah. so, you know, that s, when you do political movies, either you re totally wrong and you re not relevant or you re right and nobody s listening. so, so that s, erm, that s. that was the case with rebellion, that was the case with la haine. but here we sit talking