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Orwell: 2+2=5 review – documentary portrait doesn’t wholly add up

Raoul Peck’s film about the Nineteen Eighty-Four novelist makes a compelling case for its continuing relevance but could ask more searching questions about its author

The Guardian - UK

‘Orwell went off to fight. I thought I’d have to do the same’: Raoul Peck on his intimate connection with the writer

The Haitian director was given unprecedented access to George Orwell’s archives – and found a fellow crusader for truth. His extraordinary new film highlights the sinister links between Big Brother, Trump and Putin

The Guardian - UK

Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

A groundbreaking Tracey Emin exhibit, Van Gogh through the lens of yellow, and the return of cinema's favourite masked maniac. Here's what to look out for this week.

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Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Orwell: 2+2=5' - Chilling and indispensable

Raoul Peck takes the words of George Orwell and connects the dots between the writer’s diary entries and present-day totalitarian regimes. The filmmaker signs one of the most urgent and essential documentaries of the 21st century.

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‘Filmmaking is political’: Raoul Peck on ‘Orwell: 2+2=5’, Donald Trump, and the dangers of AI

"It’s a problem when you lose your connection with history. The ignorance is really incredible. Even though we had the facilities and instruments all along..." Euronews Culture sits down with Raoul Peck to discuss his new documentary, 'Orwell: 2+2=5' - one of the most urgent and vital films of 2026.

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26 Inspiring Movies To Watch For Black History Month

These are great movies to watch for Black History Month that inform, inspire, and ignite a thirst to see more stories like them.

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Bones, brides and odysseys: The 20 most anticipated movies of 2026

Welcome to your moviegoing guide for 2026! Here are our picks for the unmissable movies coming to a cinema near you in the first half of the year.

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How director Raoul Peck found a ‘new Orwell’ - Roll Call

“He was not writing about some sort of future republic,” says the Academy Award-nominated director of “Orwell: 2+2=5.”

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An Orwell movie for Orwellian times - Roll Call

Jason Dick talks with filmmaker Raoul Peck about his documentary “Orwell: 2+2=5,” the importance of stepping back from the news cycle to keep things in context and how degrading language leads to degrading humanity. Show Notes:

Roll Call

It’s the end of the world and the Cannes Film Festival does not feel fine

As much as the Cannes Film Festival basks in the Côte d’Azu sunshine, storm clouds have been all over its movie screens at the festival, which on Monday passed the halfway point

The Independent UK

Ernest Cole: the South African photographer at the centre of a powerful and heartbreaking film

Ernest Cole is famous for photographing the everyday realities of South Africa’s racist apartheid system. His 1967 book House of Bondage ensured his damning critique of the white minority regime was seen by the world. But its publication sent him into exile and was banned at home.

The Conversation

Cannes Film Festival unveils 2025 lineup with Julia Ducournau, Wes Anderson and Ari Aster

The 2025 vintage is looking big, bold and star-studded.... Here's everything you need to know about the line-up of this year's Cannes Film Festival.

Euronews

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found review – the man who turned his camera on apartheid

Raoul Peck offers a lyrical documentary portrait of the late South African photographer who dared to show his country’s racist regime to the world

The Guardian - UK

Ernest Cole: Lost & Found review – tragic story of fiercely pioneering photographer

Cole was a black South African photographer whose work illuminated the reality of life under apartheid, but Raoul Peck’s excellent documentary unearths a life of exile and homesickness

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‘Politically, it’s important. It’s important for humanity’: the long-lost civil rights images of Ernest Cole

A new Raoul Peck documentary showcases the recently rediscovered work of the photographer who drew parallels between apartheid South Africa and America’s battle for equality

Digital Camera World

'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found' might be the most powerful photography film of the year – and now you can watch the trailer

A new documentary about Ernest Cole hits theatres next month featuring some of the most impactful images of the twentieth-century

Radio France Internationale

How exiled photographer Ernest Cole captured apartheid’s human toll

Ernest Cole's haunting photographs of apartheid shocked the world and yet his own life ended in obscurity. Now, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck has brought Cole's story to the screen in Ernest Cole: Lost and Found. Speaking to RFI, Peck reflects on Cole's groundbreaking work and the exile that tore him…

The Independent UK

'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found' resurrects a once-forgotten anti-apartheid photographer

When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted

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Raoul Peck on his Ernest Cole film: ‘I wanted to give him the total podium’

The director of I Am Not Your Negro focuses on the South African photographer who covered apartheid in his homeland before working in the US

France 24

Arts24 in Cannes: Open-air fashion show on the Croisette with G. Gerwig, Demi Moore & Selena Gomez

In this edition of arts24 from the Cannes Film Festival with Eve Jackson, we explore glamorous fashion on and off the red carpet. With dresses and outfits each more stunning than the last. Greta Gerwig in Prada, Cate Blanchett in Jean-Paul Gaultier, Demi Moore in Schiaparelli and Selena Gomez in…

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Raoul Peck's New Documentary Investigates Assassination Of Haitian President

Raoul Peck's upcoming documentary explores Haiti's political turmoil and corruption post-Moise's assassination.

Capital & Main

Director Raoul Peck Explores the Crisis of Black Land Loss

New documentary Silver Dollar Road tells the story of massive Black wealth taken through faulty laws and loopholes.

The Guardian - US

‘It was always about land’: film-maker Raoul Peck on his infuriating new documentary

The Oscar-nominated director tackles a shocking case of black land disposession in his acclaimed new film Silver Dollar Road

Salon

"Silver Dollar Road": A family's fight

Salon talks to the director about his new film documenting a North Carolina family's struggle to keep their home

The Guardian - UK

Silver Dollar Road review – enraging, uplifting documentary on a Black family’s legal battle

Raoul Peck’s excellent film follows Black landowners in North Carolina standing up to ruthless developers over prime real estate

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