ORIGIN
Drama | Running Time: 135 minutes
2023 / English
Country: United States of America (USA), India and Germany
Arab Premiere
Ava DuVernay has won numerous awards for her films including historical drama Selma, the criminal justice documentary 13th and Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time. She is a governor of the Academy, a vice president of the Directors’ Guild of America and an advisory board member of the American Film Institute. In 2010 she founded ARRAY, which draws attention to work by African-Americans
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ProducerAva Duvernay, Paul Garnes
CastAunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Niecy Nash-Betts, Vera Farmiga, Audra Mcdonald, Nick Offerman, Blair Underwood, Connie Nielsen, Emily Yancy, Jasmine Cephas-Jones, Finn Wittock, Victoria Pedretti, Isha Blaaker, Myles Frost
ScriptwriterAva Duvernay
A bold work, Origin confirms director Ava DuVernay (Selma) as one of cinema’s great chroniclers of race relations. Adapted from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents, which itself had its origins in an article Wilkerson wrote about the murder of Trayvon Martin, it follows the journalist’s deep dive into the history and dynamics of oppression. Initially, Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) tells editor Amari (Blair Underwood) that her days as an investigative journalist are over. Once she gets her teeth into it, however, she starts to make revelatory connections between modern-day America, Nazi Germany and the Indian caste system. Duvernay brings these to life using flashbacks and historical dramatisations, creating a film that is uniquely provocative, challenging and enthralling. A must-see.