Feature Film Selection/ France, United States, 2023, Color, B&W, 106'
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Details
- Director: Raoul Peck
- Screenplay: Raoul Peck
- Editing: Alexandra Strauss
- Cinematography: Raoul Peck, Moses Tau, Wolfgang Held
- Music: Alexeï Aïgui
- Producer: Tamara Rosenberg, Raoul Peck
- Production: Velvet Film, Velvet Film Inc.
- 2024 Cannes Film Festival Golden Eye
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Recap
Ernest Cole, a South African photographer, was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to the world. His book House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was only 27, led him into exile in New York and Europe for the rest of his life, where he never managed to regain his footing. The director Raoul Peck recounts his wanderings, his artistic torment, and his daily anger at the silence or complicity of the Western world in the face of the atrocities of the apartheid regime. He also tells the story of how, in 2017, 60,000 negatives of Cole's work were discovered in a Swedish bank vault.
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Director
Raoul Peck
Haitian filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer known for his politically engaged and socially conscious cinema. Born in Haiti in 1953, he spent part of his youth in the Congo, France, Germany, and the United States. Trained as an economist and later at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (DFFB), Peck's work often explores themes of colonialism, power, race, and historical memory. He served as Haiti's Minister of Culture between 1996–1997.
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