South African actor Embeth Davidtz makes directorial debut with Rhodesia-set drama

After a three-decade career in front of the camera, South African actor Embeth Davidtz is making her directorial debut with Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight.

The film follows 8-year-old Bobo who grows up in a white family in the last days of Rhodesia’s government, after the Rhodesian Bush War. The former British colony became the independent nation of Zimbabwe in 1980.

The film is an adaptation of Alexandra Fuller’s best-selling…