LONDON (Reuters) - South African director Oliver Hermanus says he wants to outrage audiences with his BAFTA-nominated film "Moffie" to help them understand the nature of racism. Set in 1981 South ...

The Afrikaans word “moffie” is South Africa’s answer to “faggot”: an anti-gay slur used liberally and illiberally across the country’s tangle of languages, in casual playground teasing or brutal ...

Oliver Hermanus' shimmery and sensual military drama locates war zones in South Africa and in the closeted mind of its young protagonist. There is no more delicious agony than the one felt when you’re ...

A film about strapping, young recruits to South Africa’s Apartheid-era all-white military might be expected to offer moral complication along with its sympathetic portrayal of a family’s firstborn ...

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off of a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding Debut By A British Writer, Director or Producer, South African drama Moffie is due to release in select U.S. theaters and on digital and VOD ...

The film "Moffie" is set in 1981 in apartheid South Africa, where a young recruit must complete two years of mandatory military service, fighting against those who want to get rid of the country's ...

Kai Luke Brummer as Nicholas Van der Swart in 'Moffie'. Credit: Curzon Home Cinema Introduced to acting by his drama teacher mother – and the community theatre she set up in a converted helicopter ...

“Moffie,” an IFC Films release hitting theaters April 9, represents a lot of firsts for BAFTA nominee Jack Sidey as both his feature film screenwriting and producing debut. That it’s a queer-tinged ...

Head shaved, in blue jeans and a black T-shirt, Kai Luke Brümmer paced back and forth in the far corner of a rehearsal room somewhere in the labyrinthine basement of the Baxter Theatre Centre. He was ...

It's Capetown, 1981. A family gathers for what looks like a back-slapping birthday party — but is actually a farewell. In the South African drama Moffie, Nicholas, a teenager who's as subdued as his ...

LONDON, April 7 (Reuters) - South African director Oliver Hermanus says he wants to outrage audiences with his BAFTA-nominated film "Moffie" to help them understand the nature of racism. Set in 1981 ...