Les Bicots-nègres, vos voisins (Arabs and Niggers, Your Neighbours) is a 1974 French-Mauritanian film, written and directed by Med Hondo.
Les Bicots-nègres, 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, 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, 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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