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’ captures the complex dynamics of being a white minority, a strange social, cultural and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with actor Embeth Davidtz about her directorial debut, "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight." It's an adaptation of the book about growing up in Rhodesia before decolonization.

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

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.

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

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 family drama elegantly realized in “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” is relayed entirely through the perspective of ...