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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Raoul Peck

Raoul PECK (1953, Haiti) is a filmmaker of both feature and documentary films. In 1988, he graduated from the film academy of West Berlin. Since then, he has directed and produced several documentaries, feature films, and TV series in various countries. He was Haiti’s Minister of Culture from 1996 to 1997 and has been the president of the French film school La Fémis since 2010. He uses historical, political, and personal characters to tackle and recount societal issues and historical events in his works, which have been nominated for and awarded with various awards internationally. His documentary I Am Not Your Negro (2016) won various international awards, including the Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2016 and a César Award in France, and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary in 2017. He is the founder of Velvet Film, a film production company in Paris, New York, and Port-au-Prince.

Filmography

(selection) Leught (1983, short), Haitian Corner (1987), Lumumba: La mort du prophète/Lumumba: Death of a Prophet (1991, doc), L’homme sur les quais/The Man by the Shore (1993), Desounen, Dialogue with Death (1994, short doc, TV), Haiti: Le silence des chiens/Haiti, Silence of the Dogs (1994, short doc, TV), Corps plongés/It’s Not About Love (1997, TV), Lumumba (2000), Le profit et rien d’autre/Profit and Nothing But! (2001, doc, TV), Sometimes in April (2005), L’affaire Villemin (2006, TV), L’école du pouvoir (2008, TV), Moloch tropical (2009), On bosse ici! On vit ici! On reste ici! (2010, short, co-dir), Assistance mortelle/Fatal Assistance (2013, doc, TV), Murder in Pacot (2014), I Am Not Your Negro (2016, doc), The Young Karl Marx (2017), Exterminate All the Brutes (2021, TV mini series, doc)

Raoul Peck at IFFR