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Sidney Sokhona | |
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| Born | 1952 (age 72–73) |
| Occupation(s) | filmmaker and politician |
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. [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]
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