Watch Toby Jones read from The Director, the #InternationalBooker2026 shortlisted book written by Daniel Kehlmann and translated Ross Benjamin. The story so far: When the Nazis seize power in the 1930s, G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors, is filming in France. To escape the horrors of the new Germany, he flees to Hollywood. But under the dazzling California sun, the world-famous director suddenly looks like a nobody. Not even Greta Garbo, whom he made famous, can help him. Directed by Holly Blakey, produced in partnership with Park Pictures and filmed at the Southbank Centre, London.