Artist Talk. Raoul Peck

In the organizer's words:

It is no exaggeration to call Raoul Peck's career unique. What other Oscar-nominated filmmaker has also gained experience as a country's minister? The work of Peck, who was born in Haiti in 1953 but grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is almost equally divided between fictional and non-fictional formats. He first attracted international attention with the documentary LUMUMBA: DEATH OF THE PROPHET (1990) about the assassinated former Congolese prime minister, about whom he also made a feature film. Colonialism and racism are repeatedly at the center of his films, not least in the Oscar-nominated I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (2016) about the African-American writer James Baldwin and in his latest film ERNEST COLE: LOST AND FOUND, which celebrated its world premiere in Cannes this year.

Peck has a special relationship with Germany; he not only studied engineering at Humboldt University, but also studied film at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin in the 1980s before becoming Minister of Culture in Haiti in the mid-1990s.

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