Jeff Nichols, the director of Oscar-nominated civil rights drama Loving, discusses how society needs to rise above the lowest impulses of human nature to divide into groups and subjugate others, and how today’s politics does not encourage this. He and star Ruth Negga also speak about the virtues of a movie which doesn’t spoon-feed or patronise its audience with thumping emotional cues

• Loving is released in the UK on 3 February