Paris, 1970s. African migrants talk about racism in their daily lives, on the labour and housing markets in perhaps one of the most important films ever made by Mauritanian filmmaker Med Hondo — winner of the Golden Leopard in Locarno for his film Soleil Ô.

My Neighbours is a short film that underlines the potential of cinema to illuminate the post-colonial state of the world. Moreover, Hondo was a much talked-about figure back in the day. As an activist, he was associated with the French Communist Party and his work as an experimental filmmaker was often a difficult-to-classify mix of animation, music video and direct documentary cinema. So is this engaging film My Neighbours.