Tenth anniversaries are considered symbolic. What does a decade mean in the case of the Paris terrorist attacks? Is it history or still part of the present, what happened on November 13, 2015?

We are at a turning point: November 13th remains an important date, just like October 23rd for Hungary, but perhaps it will be filled with even more emotion for us than the events in Hungary in 1956 are today. In this sense, ten years is a short time, but at the same time a long time; a lot has happened in France and the world in ten years. I usually hold screenings for 14-15 year olds, we show them the film 22:01, which presents the attack on the Bataclan through my story. These teenagers were 4-5 years old at the time of the attacks, at most they heard about what happened from their parents, they do not perceive it in the same way as we who experienced it as adults.

The only thing that affects some of them is that I got a bullet in the arm, but I survived.

130 people died that night, it is important to understand, to explain what happened then and why it has such an impact, because anyone in France could have been there in the Bataclan, on a terrace or in the Stade de France, the sites of the attacks. It affects everyone. Not just those who go to a rock concert or a football match. It was almost springtime that day, many people were having dinner on the terraces, a killer bullet could have hit any of them. Memory must be preserved, and for this we need evidence.

The film, which was presented on the occasion of the tenth anniversary and will also be screened at the French Institute in Budapest on November 17, is also part of the commemoration. Vendredi Noir (Black Friday) is based on a video shot at the back exit of the Bataclan at the time of the attack, which then went viral.

Ten years ago, I was in my apartment by chance when I heard noises, and out of journalistic reflex I started filming from my window, without knowing what was happening. I just knew that something was happening and that I would have a tool in my hand to prove it.

It later emerged that this was the only video that showed what happened at the Bataclan.

How did the video from that time become the current film?

Ninety people died that day at the Bataclan, and my idea was to see what happened to the people in the video ten years later who had survived. I started investigating, which turned out to be really exciting work.