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ORWELL: 2+2=5

Raoul Peck

United States, France

Director's Biography

Film director and producer Raoul Peck directed The Man by the Shore and Lumumba, both of which were presented at the Festival de Cannes; Sometimes in April, which screened at the Berlin International Film Festival; Moloch Tropical and Murder in Pacot, which both played at the Toronto International Film Festival and the Berlinale; The Young Karl Marx, another Berlinale selection; and Ernest Cole, Lost and Found, which won the Œil d’or at Cannes. His Academy Award nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro won a BAFTA, a César, and Audience Awards at TIFF and the Berlinale. Exterminate All the Brutes received a Peabody Award. Peck has received lifetime achievement honors from Human Rights Watch, DOC NYC, and the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. Orwell: 2+2=5 was presented as a Cannes Premiere.

2025
119
English
Fiction
Screenings :
Tues 02 / 21:00 / Palais des Congrès Salle des Ambassadeurs
Tues 02 / 21:00 / Palais des Congrès Salle des Ambassadeurs

1949. George Orwell finishes what will be his final but most important novel, 1984. Orwell: 2+2=5 delves deep into Orwell’s final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece: Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, and the omnipresent specter of Big Brother—disturbing socio-political truths that resonate all the more powerfully today.

Director Raoul Peck

Producer Alex Gibney, Raoul Peck, George Chignell, Nick Shumaker

Screenwriter Raoul Peck

Cinematographer Julian Schwanitz, Ben Bloodwell, Stuart Luck, Aera, Maung Nadi, Roman T

Editor Alexandra Strauss

Sound Benoît Hillebrant

Music Alexeï Aïgui

Damian Lewis

Production Companies Jigsaw Productions, Velvet Film

International Sales Company Goodfellas

Distributor Teleview

Pays

United States, France

année

2025

durée

119

langue

English