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Raoul Peck Blasts ‘Incredible Ignorance’ of Trump White House, Compares Project 2025 to Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’: ‘We’re in the Hands of Crazy People’
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck blasted the Trump administration at the Joburg Film Festival, saying the world is in the hands of 'crazy people.'
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck blasted the Trump administration at the Joburg Film Festival on Wednesday, insisting that the world is at the mercy of “crazy people” who have put the lives of millions at stake. Peck was speaking to Variety in Johannesburg’s Theatre on the Square minutes after delivering a masterclass at the festival, which opened March 11 with his latest film, “ Ernest Cole: Lost and Found,” a portrait of the groundbreaking photographer who chronicled South African life under apartheid. In 1961, his family moved to the newly independent Democratic Republic of Congo, where his parents were among the ranks of educated, French-speaking, middle-class Haitians recruited to rebuild after the sudden departure of the Belgian colonial rulers decimated the country’s professional classes.
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