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Les Bicots-ngres, vos voisins
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'Les Bicots-ngres, vos voisins' ('Arabs and Niggers, Your Neighbours') is a 1974 French-Mauritanian film, written and directed by Med Hondo.
'Les Bicots-ngres, vos voisins', a three-hour documentary,'Cultural Events in Africa', Vol. 106 (1974), p.4 was Hondo's second feature-length film and his first colour feature.Tambay Obenson, [https://www.indiewire.com/2019/03/med-hondo-dead-african-cinema-1202048352/ Med Hondo, the Firebrand Pioneer of African Cinema, Dies], 'IndieWire', 3 March 2019. It opened with a 21-minute monologue in which a man, speaking directly to camera, expounded the history of cinematic representation in Africa.Marius Hrdy, [https://brooklynrail.org/2019/07/film/About-Some-Meaningful-Events-African-Cinema-and-50-Years-of-FESPACO About Some Meaningful Events: African Cinema and 50 Years of FESPACO], 'The Brooklyn Rail', July-August 2019. As in his debut film, 'Soleil O' (1970), Hondo addressed the racism encountered by African immigrants in France, and the continuities between slavery and the postcolonial exploitation of migrant labour:
The film won the Gold Tanit at the 1974 Carthage Film Festival.
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Category:1974 films
Category:French documentary films
Category:Mauritanian documentary films
Category:1974 documentary films
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