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Original name: Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
English name: Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Year: 2024
Run time: 106 minutes
Language: English
Type (Colour/Black & White): Black & White
Country: France, USA
Director: Raoul Peck
Producer: Tamara Rosenberg, Raoul Peck
Cast: Lakeith Stanfield (voice)
Screenplay: Ernest Cole, Raoul Peck
Cinematographer: Wolfgang Held, Moses Tau, Raoul Peck
Editor: Alexandra Strauss
Sound Designer: Stéphane Thiébaut, Aymeric Devoldère
Music Composer: Alexeï Aïgui
Production Company: Velvet Film
World Sales: mk2 Films
Raoul Peck’s complex oeuvre includes the films The Man by the Shore (Competition, Cannes Film Festival 1993); Lumumba (Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2000); Sometimes in April (Competition, Berlinale 2005); Moloch Tropical (TIFF 2009, Berlinale 2010) and Murder in Pacot (TIFF 2014, Berlinale 2015). His company Velvet Film was founded in 1989 and operates in the United States, France and Haiti. All of Peck’s documentaries, feature films and television dramas have been produced or co-produced by Velvet Film.
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.
