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ORWELL: 2+2=5
ORWELL: 2+2=5
ORWELL: 2+2=5
ORWELL: 2+2=5
ORWELL: 2+2=5
ORWELL: 2+2=5
Kaleidoscope

ORWELL: 2+2=5 France-USA, 2025, 119 min, color, documentary

George Orwell titled his dystopian 1949 novel “1984”, but it feels utterly current today when phrases like “Big Brother is watching you” might refer to Big Government, Big Business, or Big Technology. Orwell is overdue for a fresh look and filmmaker Raoul Peck makes for an incisive and stirring guide. 

 

Peck has long put great writers at the centre of his work, most notably in his Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro about James Baldwin. “I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts,” Orwell wrote. Those simple assets carried him far. While he’s best known as the author of “Animal Farm” and “1984”, this film opens us to a wider range of his writing that drew from his personal experience of poverty in “Down and Out in Paris and London”, of colonialism in “Burmese Days”, and of revolutionary uprising in “Homage to Catalonia”.

 

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Cannes ’25 – Nominated for Golden Eye 

Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck is one of the most important contemporary documentary and feature film directors, known for his politically engaged cinema and his in-depth exploration of themes such as colonialism, racism, power, and historical memory. His films often combine archival footage, historical analysis, and personal perspective to challenge official narratives and dominant ideologies. His documentary I Am Not Your Negro (2016), based on the writings of James Baldwin, was nominated for an Academy Award and is widely regarded as one of the most significant documentary works of the 21st century. He has also served as Haiti’s Minister of Culture and as Chairman of the Board of the Cannes Film Festival.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

1994 Desounen, Dialogue with Death / doc.

2000 Lumumba

2013 Fatal Assistance / doc.

2016 I Am Not Your Negro / doc.

2017 The Young Karl Marx

2025 Orwell: 2+2=5 / doc.

 

 

DIRECTOR
Raoul Peck
SCRIPT
Raoul Peck
CAMERA
Julian Schwanitz, Ben Bloodwell, Stuart Luck, Aera, Maung Nadi, Roman T
MUSIC
Alexeï Aïgui
CAST
Damian Lewis
PRODUCERS
Alex Gibney, Raoul Peck, George Chignell, Nick Shumaker
PRODUCTION
Jigsaw Productions, Velvet Film
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ORWELL: 2+2=5 France-USA, 2025, 119 min, color, documentary

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