Winner of the coveted Golden Eye award for best documentary at last year's Cannes Film Festival, Oscar-nominated director Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro, Lumumba) follows the life of South Africa's first Black freelance photographer. Documenting the horrors of apartheid and publicly denouncing it with his 1967 book House of Bondage, Ernest Cole was forced to flee South Africa and take refuge in the United States and Europe. Never to return to his home, Cole's journeys uncovered lingering traces and echoes of apartheid and oppression which he continued to document—as well as the silence and complacency of the Western world in the face of these disgusting acts. The breadth of Cole's documentation was truly realized when, to everyone's surprise, over 60,000 negatives of his were discovered in a Swedish bank vault. Oscar nominee LaKeith Stanfield (Judas and the Black Messiah, Sorry to Bother You) voices Cole's words and thoughts in a fast-moving documentary that "joins the dots between Black political and artistic freedom then and now while literally [giving] an important activist-artist a voice again"—Liam Lacey, Original Cin.

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