Inspired by true events, Seberg tells the story of the star and darling of the Nouvelle Vague, Jean Seberg (Kristen Stewart), who in the late 1960s was targeted by the illegal FBI surveillance programme Cointelpro. Seberg's political and romantic involvement with civil rights activist Hakim Jamal (Anthony Mackie) made her a target of the FBI's ruthless attempts to disrupt, discredit and expose the Black Power movement. An ambitious young FBI agent, Jack Solomon (Jack O'Connell), is assigned to surveil her, only to find his fate dangerously interwoven with her own.
Benedict Andrews (Adelaide, Australia. 1972) is a theatre and opera director. Over the past decade, he has built up an iconoclastic body of work in both Australia as well in Europe and North America. On stage, he has worked with an extraordinary roll call of actors including Isabelle Huppert, Sienna Miller, Gillian Anderson, Ben Foster, Vanessa Kirby and Elizabeth Debickie, as well as repeat collaborations with Cate Blanchett. His feature film debut Una (2016), which had its world premiere at the Telluride Festival, competed at the London Festival and was shown at that of Toronto. Seberg, his second feature, was presented out of competition in the Official Selection at the last Venice Festival.