“The boldest documentary anyone could make right now” – Time Magazine
“A sobering reminder of what’s at stake in this technology-defined age of doublethink and thoughtcrime” – The Hollywood Reporter
In Orwell: 2+2=5, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) surveys the writer’s final years to understand how a man shaped by poverty, imperialism, and war authored a warning we’ve yet to heed. Peck’s film is neither hagiography nor a traditional biography: through a powerful assemblage of archival footage, contemporary media, and literary narration (voiced by Damian Lewis), Orwell’s work resonates as prescient commentary on our own paradoxical present. Drawing from Orwell’s full body of work—from Burmese Days to Down and Out in Paris and London—Peck shows how language becomes ideology, fiction becomes prophecy, and a dying writer’s final manuscript might be the most urgent mirror of our time.
In English, Burmese, Russian, French, Spanish and Mandarin, with English subtitles.
