Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Plot

More than 60,000 of Ernest Cole’s 35mm film negatives were inexplicably discovered in a bank vault in Stockholm, Sweden. Most considered these forever lost, especially the thousands of pictures he shot in the U.S. Told through Cole’s own writings, the stories of those closest to him, and the lens of his uncompromising work, the film is a reintroduction of a pivotal Black artist to a new generation and will unravel the mystery of his missing negatives.

About Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

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.

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