Sidney Sokhona
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Sidney Sokhona | |
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| Born | 1952 |
| Nationality | Mauritanian |
| Occupation(s) | filmmaker and politician. |
Sidney Sokhona (born 1952) is a Mauritanian filmmaker and politician.
Life
[edit]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.[1]
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".[2]
Filmography
[edit]- Nationalité: Immigré [Nationality: Immigration], 1975
- Safrana ou le droit à la parole [Safrana, or The Right to Speak], 1977
Festivals / Awards
[edit]1976 | 5ème FESPACO | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | www.fespaco.bf
- Prix spécial du jury (exaequo avec Sejnane, d’Abdellatif Ben Ammar, Tunisie)
- Prix Georges Sadoul
References
[edit]- ^ Sarah Cowan, The Right to Speak, The Paris Review, February 22, 2017.
- ^ 'Notre cinéma', Cahiers du cinéma, No. 285, February 1978. Trans. David Wilson as Sidney Sokhona (2000). "Our Cinema". In Jim Hillier; David Wilson; Bérénice Reynaud; Nick Browne (eds.). Cahiers Du Cinéma: Volume Four, 1973-1978 : History, Ideology, Cultural Struggle. Psychology Press. pp. 227–232. ISBN 978-0-415-02988-9.
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