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Moffie Q&A: Director Oliver Hermanus

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Moffie director, Oliver Hermanus Moffie – about a closeted gay conscript – is possibly South African director Oliver Hermanus’ most provocative film; dealing with queerness and toxic masculinity in the apartheid-era military. The year is 1981, and South Africa’s white minority government is embroiled in conflict on the southern Angolan border.

Like all white men over the age of 16, Nicholas van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the racist apartheid regime.

The threat of communism and the so-called swart gevaar (black danger), the conscripts are told, are on their doorstep. Nicholas knows this is not the only danger he faces.

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