When Rebecca Hall signed on to direct the onscreen adaptation of Nella Larsen's 1929 novel Passing, she had one "non-negotiable" request: the film needed to be shot in black and white. Starring ...

Her maternal grandfather, she learned, was a light-skinned black man who "passed" for white for the majority of his life. Image: Tessa Thompson (left) and Ruth Negga star in Rebecca Hall's Passing.