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

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 ...

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

Grappling with a tenuous moment in history through the lens of a young girl's personal experience, Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight makes its mark.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

And it’s where she’d return decades later to direct her first film, “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” a poetic and deeply personal adaptation of Alexandra Fuller’s memoir about ...