Sony Pictures Classics has picked up all global rights to Embeth Davidtz’s directorial debut, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight.

Fresh off a series of rave reviews out of Telluride and the Toronto International Film Festival, the movie is based on Alexandra Fuller's memoir of the same name and also stars Davidtz, previously of "Schindler's List" and "Matilda" fame.

TIFF: The South African actor talks to IndieWire about adapting Alexandra Fuller's best-selling memoir that tells of African civil war from the POV of a child and her white farming family.

Sony Pictures Classics has landed worldwide rights to “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” a dramatization of Alexandra Fuller’s memoir about growing up in the Rhodesian civil war. The movie, which premiered at Telluride Film Festival and also screened at Toronto,

The "Matilda" actress stars in, wrote, and made her directorial debut on the adaptation of Alexandra Fuller's memoir.