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1949. George Orwell completes what would be his final and most important novel, 1984. ORWELL: 2+2=5 delves into the final months of Orwell’s life and his visionary work to explore the roots of the unsettling concepts he revealed in his dystopian masterpiece: doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, and the ever-present spectre of Big Brother. Orwell – 2+2=5 was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2025. Raoul Peck is the author of a rich and complex body of work. His films include “Lumumba”, selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000, and “I Am Not Your Negro” (2017) about the writer James Baldwin, which won the Audience Award at the Toronto and Berlin film festivals. In 2022, he released the documentary mini-series “Exterminate All the Brutes”, co-produced for HBO with Arte, which offers a critical re-examination of the history of an ethnocentric Europe. His penultimate film, “Ernest Cole”, about the life and work of the photographer, won Cannes' Golden Eye in May 2024.
