

Origin
While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the beauty of human resilience.
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6.2/10
88 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $38M
- Box office
- $4.5M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- based on true story
- racism
- period drama
- caste system
- woman director
- historical drama
- 1940s
- 19th century
- 1960s
- 1990s
- female writer
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)PG-13New York City, New York & Los Angeles, California8 Dec 2023
- Theatrical (limited)PG-1319 Jan 2024
- Digital / OTTPG-1312 Mar 2024
- Physical11 Jun 2024
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A8 Mar 2024
- Digital / OTT1213 May 2024
- Digital / OTT12Prime Video1 Oct 2024
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM4 Apr 2024
- PremiereBirrarangga Film Festival15 Mar 2025
CanadaCA
- Premiere18AToronto International Film Festival11 Sept 2023
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical128 Dec 2023
IrelandIE
- Theatrical12A9 Feb 2024
ItalyIT
- PremiereVenice Film Festival6 Sept 2023
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical (limited)148 Dec 2023
- Theatrical1229 Feb 2024
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/1230 May 2024
Puerto RicoPR
- Theatrical (limited)PG-13Fine Arts18 Jan 2024
SingaporeSG
- TheatricalNC1613 Jun 2024
South KoreaKR
- Digital / OTT1529 Dec 2024
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Origin was released on 8 December 2023.
Audience reviews
4- M7/10
Manuel São Bento
9/8/2023
FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://fandomwire.com/origin-venice-film-festival-review-a-must-see-educational-story/ "Origin brilliantly transposes the pillars of caste from Isabel Wilkerson's book to the big screen through an incredibly revealing, genuinely fascinating narrative, despite becoming clear that the source material is better suited to a documentary. The exceptionally human performances of the entire …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
3/14/2024
The acting is all really quite adequate here, but it's not really that important to the fascinating underlying premiss that underpins the theory that race, in itself, might not be the reasons for the hierarchical nature of a society that always manages to create sub-classes. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor offers her own engaging perspective on author Isabel Wilkerson who is invited by a publisher to offer a more considered an…
- B8/10
Brent Marchant
3/17/2024
Those who believe that institutionalized systemic racism is fundamentally an American problem should probably give a serious look to this latest offering from writer-director Ava DuVernay, best known for the superb historical drama, “Selma” (2014). Based on the book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by best-selling author Isabel Wilkerson, the film examines how organic prejudices are actually a worldwide phenomen…
- S4/10
swiewior
1/3/2025
A missed opportunity. While I agree with the most but not everything that was stated in the movie, I can't understand why it failed to find obvious similarities to segregation based on religion. Am I the only one who sees forbidding marriage between religions the same as forbidding interracial marriagies? I think it was convenient to find funds for this movie in times of woke movement. The intentions of the author…
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