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Ernest Cole, a South African photographer was the first to expose the horrors of apartheid to a world audience. His book House of Bondage, published in 1967 when he was only 27 years old, led him into exile in NYC and Europe for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings. Raoul Peck recounts his wanderings, his turmoil as an artist and his anger, on a daily basis, at the silence or complicity of the Western world in the face of the horrors of the Apartheid regime. He also recounts how, in 2017, 60,000 negatives of his work were discovered in the safe of a Swedish bank.
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Raoul Peck
SEE COMPLETE PROFILEBorn in Haiti, Raoul Peck grew up in Congo, France, Germany, and the United States. He earned a degree in economic engineering in Germany before entering the Berlin Film and Television Academy (DFFB). Since then, he has created a complex and varied body of work ranging from the documentary Profit and Nothing But! (2000) to the mini-series The Villemin Affair (2006), The School of Power (2008).
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Festival de Cannes · Toronto International Film Festival · Festival du nouveau cinéma
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SCREENING 1
1 July 2025 pm31 21h00
Parc du Pélican