"The idea of caste as being the foundational principle of so many of the -isms that we experience in our lives — whether it's racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism or whatever — the bedrock of all of that is this very fundamental idea that I'm better than you because of this set of random traits and that I will organise society and I will accrue power and status based on that," says DuVernay

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Origin director Ava DuVernay on grief and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author who inspired her latest film

The film follows author Isabel Wilkerson’s journey of personal tragedy while writing her Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.

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