'Nobody is guaranteed to have democracy for ever': Raoul Peck on his new George Orwell film 

The rise of technology and current world turmoil have ensured that George Orwell feels as relevant as ever. Orwell: 2+2=5 has Damian Lewis providing the voice of the great writer 

Orwell: 2+2=5 opens in selected Irish cinemas on Friday. 

Raoul Peck has good reasons to tackle the life of George Orwell and the lessons to be learned from Orwell’s political writings.

Peck knows more than most about authoritarian regimes. He was born in Haiti in 1953. As an eight-year-old child, his family fled the François 'Papa Doc' Duvalier dictatorship. As a teenager in the late 1960s, he lived under the Congo’s military dictatorship.