Ernest Cole, 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. Drawing on a trove of unpublished images, discovered in the safe of a Swedish bank, Raoul Peck – the Oscar-nominated director of I am Not your Negro (2017) – recounts Cole’s wanderings, his turmoil as an artist, and his anger at the silence and complicity of the Western world in the face of the horrors of the Apartheid regime. The film was joint winner of the documentary prize, the L’Oeil d’or, at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

Notes by David O’Mahony.

There will be Open Captioned screenings at 13.00 on Friday 7th, and 18.15 on Monday 10th.