The South African filmmaker, who is mixed race, takes a scathing look at institutional racism and homophobia in his Afrikaans-language drama, which bows in the U.S. today.
For his first film on Apartheid, South African director Oliver Hermanus did not expect to focus on the trauma of white men.
Hermanus, who was born in Cape Town and now lives in London, is mixed race, the group labeled "colored" under the racist regime that ruled South Africa until the early 1990s. But Moffie, his first film set in the apartheid era, is told from the white point of view.
Read More ..https://www.lasgidiloaded.com/2021/04/moffie-director-oliver-hermanus-on.html

[img]https://1.bp..com/-X6TJUw7HoR8/YHBrkgbMVyI/AAAAAAAAFac/ToHKn7wkweQSz9PaeYPq3nGDnuFF4yTlACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h360/Moffie-Still-and-inset-of-Oliver-Hermanus-H-2021-1617892908-928x523.jpg[/img]