Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is a 2024 South African drama film directed by South-African-American actress Embeth Davidtz in her feature directorial debut. The film is based on British-Zimbabwean Alexandra Fuller's best-selling 2001 memoir of her experience as a young girl in a white tenant farming family in the last days of Rhodesia’s minority White-led government in the lead up to the pivotal 1980 elections. The mostly South African cast includes Lexi Venter as the 8-year-old Fuller, Davidtz as her alcoholic mother, in addition to Zikhona Bali, Rob Van Vuuren, and Fumani Shilubana.
The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2024, and is set to screen as part of the Gala Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2024. The Hollywood Reporter’s review called it an “extraordinary” and “beautifully realized” adaptation.