Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

The Bioscope is proud to be screening the important new documentary from revered filmmaker Raoul Peck. Ernest Cole: Lost and Found' was selected to screen in the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, was chosen as the opening night film at this year's Joburg Film Festival. After the festival, it's exciting to be hosting more screenings of the film from 28 March.

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Directed by: Raoul Peck. Documentary. Dur 1hr 45mins.

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 in1967 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. Filmmaker 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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