Category: Orwell: 2+2-5
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Review: Orwell 2+2=5
– TIFF Dispatch – by Jason Bailey | Crooked Marquee | September 11, 2025 So few films — even indies, even festival favorites — are willing to take the risk of tinkering with standard storytelling techniques, with the ways in which a movie moves from one scene to another, chronologically and stylistically. I’ve enjoyed every…
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Orwell: 2+2=5 To Be Honored at Albie Awards
– The False Equation – According to Plunge Daily, Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5 documentary will be honored at the 6th Annual Albie Awards in New York City on September 24, 2025 for its impact, and after the documentary has made its festival run at Toronto Film Festival and Festival du Cinéma Américain de Deauville. As…
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Headed to Deauville American Film Festival
– Festival de Deauville – The 51st annual Festival du Cinéma Américain de Deauville gets underway in France. The festival runs from Friday, September 5 through Sunday, September 14, 2025, celebrating the best of American global cinema. Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5 is part of the festival’s American Doc Stories category. The documentary interweaves historical clips, readings…
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Headed to Toronto International Film Festival
– TIFF 50 – Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)’s documentary programs get underway and will feature 23 docs from 18 countries. The festival runs from September 4-14, 2025, celebrating the best of Canadian and global cinema. Making its North American debut at TIFF is Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film…
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Acquired in Several Deals
– Buzzy Cannes Debut – by Melanie Goodfellow | Deadline | May 23, 2025 Goodfellas has unveiled a first round of deals for Raoul Peck’s documentary Orwell: 2+2=5, exploring the contemporary resonance of George Orwell’s work, following its well-received world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. In Europe, the work has been acquired for France (Le…
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The Best Documentary I’ve Seen at Cannes
by Sam Adams | Slate Magazine | May 21, 2025 – Dazzling and Terrifying – The best documentary I’ve seen at Cannes, political or otherwise, is Raoul Peck’s Orwell: 2+2=5, which interweaves a personal portrait of the author with a wide-ranging exploration of how his ideas are playing out in the current world. Ending with a…
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Raoul Peck’s Brilliant Orwell: 2+2=5 Is the Boldest Documentary Anyone Could Make Right Now
– Blazingly Forthright – by Stephanie Zacharek | Times Magazine | May 19, 2025 Raoul Peck is one of our most valuable documentary filmmakers. Instead of just presenting us with information, he shows us ways of seeing, inspiring us to look for patterns and connections we might not have seen otherwise. That’s the principle at work in his…
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Damian Lewis Attends Orwell Photocall at Cannes Film Festival
– Orwell: 2+2=5 – Damian was back on the red carpet for a second time on day six of the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival held at Palais des Festivals et des Congrès on Sunday, May 18, 2025 in Cannes, France. He posed during a photocall for the film Orwell: 2+2=5, a documentary in which…