Passing

Tessa Thompson (Thor: Ragnarok) and Oscar nominee Ruth Negga (Loving) lead writer-director Rebecca Hall's Sundance award-nominated feature debut about two Black women who can "pass" as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the colour line during the height of the Harlem Renaissance in late 1920s New York. Co-stars André Holland (Moonlight) and Emmy winner Alexander Skarsgård (Big Little Lies).

An adaptation of Nella Larsen's 1929 novella, the story follows Irene Redfield (Thompson) and Clare Kendry (Negga). After a chance encounter reunites the former childhood friends one summer afternoon, Irene reluctantly allows Clare into her home, where she ingratiates herself to Irene’s husband (Holland) and family, and soon her larger social circle as well. As their lives become more deeply intertwined, Irene finds her once-steady existence upended by Clare.

Being of mixed race, Hall explained the appeal of adapting Larsen's novel: "I came across the novel at a time when I was trying to reckon creatively with some of my personal family history, and the mystery surrounding my biracial grandfather on my American mother's side. In part, making this film is an exploration of that history, to which I've never really had access."

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