Sidney Sokhona (born 1952) is a Mauritanian filmmaker and
politician.Sokhona shot his first feature film, Nationality:
Immigration, from 1972 to 1975 as an immigrant in Paris. The film
hybridised documentary and surreal fiction, with Sokhana himself
playing the lead role of an immigrant living through a rent strike in
the Rue Riquet.Sokhona wrote on African cinema for Cahiers du Cinéma,
arguing that "Africa was colonized, and so is its cinema", and that
African film-makers were beginning "to draw up battle plans for [....]
cinematic independence".1976 | 5ème FESPACO | Ouagadougou, Burkina
Faso | www.fespaco.bf
politician.Sokhona shot his first feature film, Nationality:
Immigration, from 1972 to 1975 as an immigrant in Paris. The film
hybridised documentary and surreal fiction, with Sokhana himself
playing the lead role of an immigrant living through a rent strike in
the Rue Riquet.Sokhona wrote on African cinema for Cahiers du Cinéma,
arguing that "Africa was colonized, and so is its cinema", and that
African film-makers were beginning "to draw up battle plans for [....]
cinematic independence".1976 | 5ème FESPACO | Ouagadougou, Burkina
Faso | www.fespaco.bf
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