His House

After fleeing the war in South Sudan, a young couple arrives in Britain hoping to rebuild their lives. They are granted asylum and assigned a house in a small English town, but the arrangement comes with a condition: they must stay in the property or risk losing it. While they try to adjust to their new surroundings, they come to sense a hostile presence sharing the house with them, and Bol finds himself struggling to hold the family together as the past he escaped follows him inside.

Remi Weekes wrote and directed His House, his feature debut. Sope Dirisu and Wunmi Mosaku play Bol and Rial Majur, with Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba as their daughter, Matt Smith as the couple's caseworker and Javier Botet as a supernatural figure. The film runs ninety-three minutes and was produced by New Regency Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment, BBC Film and Starchild Pictures, with Arnon Milchan, Roy Lee and Aidan Elliott among the producers. Critics rated it 8.1 out of 10 across 128 reviews, placing it well above the audience scores: on IMDb it holds 6.4 out of 10 from around 54,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.4 out of 10 from roughly 1,300 votes. The film is a British-American production and was released in January 2020.