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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

11th November 2025

By Raoul Peck | USA & France | 2024 |1h 06’ | English | 15

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 when he was only 27, led him into exile for the rest of his life, never to find his bearings. The film recounts his turmoil as an artist and his anger at the silence or complicity of the West in the face of the Apartheid regime. In 2017, 60,000 negatives of his work were discovered in the safe of a Swedish bank.

"Watching 'Lost and Found,' you’re moved by a life that veered into tragedy, yet the place it lands lifts you up. More than a great photographer, Ernest Cole captured something essential. By the end you feel the ghost is speaking to you." Owen Gleiberman, Variety

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