One day Sibongile, a domestic worker in South Africa, wakes to find her son missing. This story is about that day and the real relationships that inspired the film.
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Troublemaker
On a hot day in eastern Nigeria, a young boy learns that actions have consequences. Troublemaker is a coming-of-age story about masculinity, violence, and the effects of war on community and across generations.
July 2021
Q&A with Wyatt Rockefeller
It felt like there were unexpected and interesting story turns at every corner. What sparked this idea for you?
Wyatt Rockefeller: The spark for the idea came, really, from a feeling. I was in the woods with my Dad, and it was snowing.
January 2022
Q&A with Stanley Nelson, Traci A. Curry and Arthur Harrison
Can you talk about the germination of this idea, for you?
Jeymes Samuel: The film has been in my head since I was a kid.
October 2017
Q&A with Shrabani Basu, Eddie Izzard, Ali Fazal, Judi Dench, and Stephen Frears
Around 2004, you were doing research about curry during Queen Victoria’s time, and it seems you ended up finding much more than expected?
Shrabani Basu: I knew that that Queen Victoria loved her curry and she had so many Indian servants that cooked for her.
June 2023
Q&A with Sean Mullin
When did you first start noticing a disconnect between Yogi Berra’s reputation and the player the stats showed him to be?
Sean Mullin: I think that’s what this was all about. When I started doing the research, I was like, wait, this guy was criminally overlooked.
December 2022
Q&A with Oliver Hermanus, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Bill Nighy
Can you talk about genesis of the film?
Kazuo Ishiguro: I can tell you about the origin story of this film, before the real work started. I can take credit for having the original idea, because it was kind of an obsession of mine for years. It was partly because I was a Japanese kid growing up in England and I was always very interested in any Japanese film that was shown in England.
April 2021
Q&A with Oliver Hermanus
What was your experience working with the author of the memoir on which the film is based?
Oliver Hermanus: The first thing I did, when I was certain I would tackle it, was I met with [author Andre Carl van der Merwe] a few times.
December 2013
Q&A with Justin Chadwick, Anant Singh, Idris Elba, and Naomie Harris
Would you have made the film any other way, looking back?
Having been in this industry for a long time, trying to get movies made is very challenging under any circumstances.
October 2021
Q&A with Fran Kranz, Reed Birney, Ann Dowd, and Jason Isaacs
You did almost all of the work on this film— what was that experience like?
Jessica Kingdon: I did have a close cinematographer, Nathan Truesdell, and we shot it together. But, yeah, it was very much a film that was coming out of my own mind.
October 2018
Q&A with Alex Honnold, Jimmy Chin, and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Was the El Capitan free solo climb always the thing, or were you interested in Alex more generally?
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi: We were interested in Alex and interested in his process and interested in who he is as a human.
July 2025
Q&A with Embeth Davidtz
Congratulations on this powerful and sensitive film. When did Alexandra Fuller’s book first come to your attention, and what made you want to adapt it and take on so many roles?
Embeth Davitz: I read the book when it came out in 2003, and it just stayed with me.
July 2024
Punter
Young Brett must navigate the underbelly of the Johannesburg gambling world as a seemingly harmless horse-racing bet jeopardizes the surprise he’s prepared for his father’s birthday.
June 2018
Ons Albertinia – Directed by Chantel Clark
South Africa, 1990. When the crumbling Apartheid regime affords Marie Abrahams an opportunity to sell the family farm, her daughter Inge fights to keep their ancestral land.
Facing North – Directed by Tukei Muhumuza
Almost all the men in the village have left for greener pastures in Europe. A bride is torn between two possible futures. Through the support of her maid of honour, she navigates her past love and pending commitment.