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The film was shot in Wolof, Senegal’s lingua franca, which Diop herself labored to understand.—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024 Migrants who’d survived similar journeys were extras on the film
The majority of the film’s dialogue is in Wolof, a language Garrone does not speak.—Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024 The film is in French and Wolof with English subtitles.—Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Feb. 2024 The vendors chatted with one another in Wolof, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Chinese and more.—Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024 Among the highest rates of genetic sharing between research participants and Catoctin individuals were people who identified as West Africa's Wolof and Mandinka peoples or Central Africa's Kongo people.—Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
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