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Аватар персоны Sidney Sokhona

Sidney Sokhona

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Sidney Sokhona is a distinguished figure in African cinema, with a focus on Mauritanian narratives that intertwine personal experiences with socio-political commentary. His works critically address issues of identity, migration, and social injustice, reflecting his own life's journey from Mauritania to France. There, Sokhona's engagement with African student and migrant worker struggles deeply influenced his filmmaking, blending documentary realism with narrative storytelling to give a voice to the marginalized African diaspora.

01-01-1952

Birthday

Capricorn

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

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Also known as (male)

Nouakchott, Mauritania

Place of Birth

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actor

1 Works

producer

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director

4 Works

writer

2 Works

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Nationality: Immigrant

Nationality: Immigrant

A Mauritanian worker, Sidi, works in France. Like most immigrant workers, he is employed to do the most difficult and dangerous jobs. Sidi and his comrades are exploited systematically and permanently, as much by their employers as by their own countrymen who are constantly able to offer false working papers, slums where immigrants buy at high cost their right to sleep. But faced with racism and economic exploitation, immigrant workers communicate, organise...
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Year:

1976