Sidney Sokhona

Sidney Sokhona was born in 1952 in Tachott, in Mauritania, and reached Paris as a teenager, at the end of the sixties. A labourer, then a repairer of telephone installations, he took evening classes and discovered cinema at the University of Vincennes; he was the unpaid assistant of Jean Rouch and Med Hondo, lived in the workers' hostel on rue Riquet and wrote for the Cahiers du cinéma. Back in Mauritania, he filmed newsreels, then left cinema for politics; a deputy for Sélibaby, he became first vice-president of the National Assembly in 2020.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaSafrana or Freedom of SpeechSafrana ou le Droit à la paroleSidney Sokhona · 1978Cinema