Raoul Peck

Raoul Peck (born 1953) is probably the only internationally known Haitian film director – and he has had his share of fame, too, having had his work accepted to competitions at major festivals like Cannes. He was the Haitian Minister of Culture in 1996 and 1997.

When he was just a child, Peck's family fled François Duvalier's dictatorship to Congo, which inspired him to direct his most successful documentary Lumumba: Death of a Prophet in 1990 and his most famous drama film Lumumba in 2000, both about a Congolese martyr.

Peck previously covered the topic of the Haiti earthquake in a parallel documentary called Fatal Assistance (2013). At the moment he is preparing a film called The Young Karl Marx, depicting the friendship between the young Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Midnight Sun Film Festival