Gratisvisning
Innvandring på film
Nationalité immigré (1976)
Søndag 18. september 2022 - kl. 19:00
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Info:
Visningsformat: Ubekreftet
Regissør: Sidney Sokhona
Manusforfatter: Sidney Sokhona
Skuespillere: Sidney Sokhona, Jacques Ruisseau, Constant Hames
Produksjonsland: Frankrike
Språk: Arabisk
Lengde: 1 time 25 minutter
Update:
Big thanks to Steve Macfarlane from Spectacle, Brooklyn for kindly sending us the subtitles for the film.
Innvandring på film:
Immigration is a topic which appears in political rhetoric and news frequently. But the realities experienced by those who struggle for a better life in a new country are often ignored or pushed to the periphery. Our season ‘Immigration on film’ aims to bring these stories to the center of the discourse. Through a compilation of three films that deal with the broader subject of immigration from the global south to the ‘West’ we aim to highlight immigrant perspectives as well as the perspectives of non-immigrant filmmakers who express solidarity through their works.
We start off with Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s critically acclaimed Le Havre, which provides an insight into the complex refugee phenomenon through the tale of a shoeshiner who helps an undocumented immigrant child to reunite with his family. The second film in the season, Lingua Franca, is a personal one by Isabel Sandoval who is an immigrant in the United States herself. It deals with both internal and external challenges faced by a transgender care-worker from the Philippines. And last, but not least, Nationality: Immigrant, a 1976 docu-fiction by the Mauritanian director Sidney Sokhona explores themes which are unfortunately still relevant today, issues such as the economic exploitation of immigrant workers and blatant racism.
Nor:
I Nationality: Immigrant utforsker Sidney Sokhona rasismen og assimileringspresset som immigranter møter i Frankrike. Vi følger Sidi (Sokhona), en mauritansk arbeider som søker et bedre liv. Gjennom ham får vi et glimt av de elendige levekårene og opplevelsene til den afrikanske arbeiderklassen i Paris tidlig på 1970-tallet. Denne Brechtianske filmen blander surrealistisk fiksjon og dokumentar, og fremhever betydningen av en samlet front mot den herskende klassens systematiske undertrykkelse. Filmen demonstrerer styrke gjennom solidaritet og organisert handling.
Eng:
Nationality: Immigrant explores the racism, exploitation, xenophobia and assimilation faced by the immigrants in France. We follow Sidi (Sokhona), a Mauritanian worker in his search for a better life, and through him we get a glimpse of the abysmal living conditions, common struggles and experiences of the African working class of Paris (many of them played by Sokhona’s neighbours) in the early 1970s. This Brechtian film which blends surreal fiction and documentary, highlights the importance of a united front against the ruling class’ systematic oppression while demonstrating the power of solidarity and organized action.
Sidney Sokhona wrote, directed and starred in Nationality: Immigrant as well as paid for it with his own salary as a telephone operator. He elaborates in Cahiers du Cinema: “Immigration has not only served to alienate us but also to teach us to be ashamed of what we were before. Any immigrant with a conscience realizes he has as much to claim on the workers’ side as the farmers’, today.”
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