Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Friday 25 April 2025 - Wednesday 30 April 2025

Cinema

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, shows how 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. 

 

‘Yet, Cole’s story is still unfolding with this strange new chapter. This renewed interest and Peck’s reintroduction might give a wider audience the chance to appreciate the photographer on his own terms.’ RogerEbert ★★★☆

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Certificate: 15

Length: 120 minutes

Director: Raoul Peck

Cast: Lakeith Stanfield

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Dates and times

Friday 25 April 2025 | 11:00 am

Sunday 27 April 2025 | 11:00 am

Wednesday 30 April 2025 | 2:00 pm

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