Once regarded as one of independent cinema's most influential directing partnerships, brothers Josh and Benny Safdie ended their long-running collaboration in 2023 after more than a decade of critical success. At the time, the split was framed publicly as a professional divergence, with both filmmakers choosing to pursue separate creative paths.
In recent months, however, renewed industry reporting has linked the breakdown of their partnership to a disputed on-set incident during the production of their 2017 film Good Time. While the allegations remain unproven, their resurfacing has attracted attention because of the broader questions they raise about responsibility, safeguarding and ethical oversight in film-making.
