Sidney Sokhona (born 1952) is a Mauritanian filmmaker and politician.
Life 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.Sarah Cowan, The Right to Speak, The Paris Review, February 22, 2017.
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".'Notre cinéma', Cahiers du cinéma, No. 285, February 1978. Trans. David Wilson as
Filmography Nationalité: Immigré [Nationality: Immigration], 1975 Safrana ou le droit à la parole [Safrana, or The Right to Speak], 1977
Festivals / Awards
1976 | 5ème FESPACO | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | www.fespaco.bf Prix spécial du jury (exaequo avec Sejnane, d’Abdellatif Ben Ammar, Tunisie)
1975 | Paris, France Prix Georges Sadoul
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