For crafting a rare, disorienting perspective on capital punishment, Schmitz's apartheid-era procedural "Shepherds and Butchers" deserves considerable credit. Less fresh or persuasive is the inelegant courtroom drama framing the boy's trauma, though the roles it affords for Steve Coogan and an excellent Andrea Riseborough as ethically sparring lawyers will bring a modicum of international attention to this sincere, still-seething snapshot of a thankfully defunct national administration.