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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found (2024)

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found poster
Original title
Ernest Cole, photographe
Directed by
Raoul Peck
Genre
documentary film, biographical film
Country
France, United States
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
MA 15+
Rating
7.6 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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A documentary about South African photographer Ernest Cole, who used his camera to document the brutality of apartheid in the 1960s and 1970s. The film follows his life and work, showing how he risked everything to expose injustice.

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What happens

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found is a 2024 documentary film produced, written and directed by Raoul Peck. It follows Ernest Cole, a South African independent photographer who exposed the horrors of the Apartheid in South Africa during the 1960s and 1970s. It is narrated by LaKeith Stanfield. The documentary had its world premiere in the Special Screenings section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival on May 20, 2024, where it won the L'Œil d'or for Best Documentary. At the 50th César Awards it was nominated in the Best Documentary Film category. It was theatrically released in the United States on November 22, 2024, by Magnolia Pictures, and in France on December 25, 2024, by Condor Distribution. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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