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Victoria Pedretti is known for her unsettling roles in Netflix's 'The Haunting of Hills House,' 'The Haunting of Bly Manor,' and 'You.'

(JTA) - Early in the new drama "Origin," the Pulitzer Prize-winning Black author Isabel Wilkerson (played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) calls her cousin

(JTA) — Early in the new drama “Origin,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning Black author Isabel Wilkerson (played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) calls her cousin from Berlin to share that, as part of

The US director speaks about her hard-hitting new film exploring how prejudice has thrived around the world – and why she struggles with questions about its brutal scenes.

Ava DuVernay’s ambitious new film attempts to grapple with complex theories on race, but forgets to tell a good story.

The film opens with the 2012 murder of Black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida, later recreating Nazi-era Germany, the Jim Crow South and other moments it connects through the idea of caste. 

Ava DuVernay's new film, 'Origin,' is based on Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 book 'Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.'

In an exclusive interview with BET.com, DuVernay, lead actor Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Emmy-winning Niecy Nash-Betts discuss the films creation, the power of cinema, and the profound impact of telling stories that matter.

Based on Isabel Wilkerson’s bestseller “Caste,” the film dramatizes Nazi Germany and connects it to other global systems of oppression.

Using Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ as a starting point, the filmmaker turns the making of a bestseller into an attempt to rethink the subject of race.