Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

In the organizer's words:

• FR 2024
• 106 min
• Director: Raoul Peck
• Documentary: Original version with German voiceover and subtitles where applicable

Screenings:

• Thurs., April 17, 2025 - Wed., April 23, 2025 at 5:00 p.m.
• Thu, April 24, 2025 - Wed, April 30, 2025 at 8:15 p.m.

In the 1960s, South African photographer Ernest Cole showed us the horrors of apartheid in pictures. In 1967, at the age of just 27, he published the photo book "House of Bondage". His images of everyday reality were unwelcome to the regime; the book was banned. Cole remained in exile - first in the USA and later in Sweden. A quarter of a century after his death, 60,000 unpublished negatives were found in a bank safe there. Filmmaker Raoul Peck embarks on a meticulous search for clues, both criminally and politically, visually and poetically, and lets Ernest Cole tell the story of his life and work in thoughts and images.