Discovery Lexi Venter anchors Davidtz's impressionistic adaptation of a memoir of rural life during the Rhodesian Bush War.

In 1974, when it seemed as though everyone was leaving South Africa, Embeth Davidtz’s family was going back. Davidtz, a ...

Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight does what the best films do— take you to another time and place that, somehow, feels all too familiar right now.

Writer-director Embeth Davidtz offers a beguiling film inspired by Alexandra Fuller’s 2001 memoir about her childhood in ...

Bobo, a white girl growing up on a farm in Africa, has a mop of unruly hair, smudgy cheeks, and a fondness for cigarettes at ...

Seven-year-old performer Lexi Venter delivers a feral, unforgettable performance in "Schindler's List" actor Embeth Davidtz’s ...

A 7-year-old’s stunning lead performance grounds this moving film about a childhood spent in an African civil war.

Embeth Davidtz was a hard-working actress, and then she found her voice as a writer/director. Thanks to a cancelled series, ...

It took Embeth Davidtz six years to bring "Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight" to the big screen. It's based on a 2001 memoir ...

The film tells the story of Rhodesia’s transformation from British colony into the independent nation of Zimbabwe through a ...

Based on the bestselling memoir of the same name by Alexandra Fuller, the film “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” explores a violent period of transition in Zimbabwe’s history — through the eyes of ...

The family drama elegantly realized in “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” is relayed entirely through the perspective of Bobo (Lexi Venter), a white child who witnesses her mother spinning out ...