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MOFFIE

Oliver Hermanus

South Africa, UK 2019 104 DCP Color

Film description

1981, South Africa. The white minority government is embroiled in a conflict against Angola, and Nicholas, a 16-year-old boy, is obliged to undergo a two-year grueling training so as to defend the Apartheid regime and repel the “black danger.” As the title suggests (a derogatory Afrikaan term meaning queer), a tender – and completely forbidden – connection is sparkled between Nicholas and a fellow recruit. In a suffocating environment of hateful brainwash and obscurantism, oppression is omnipresent and bursting in all directions. A tale of cruelty and intolerance, which reminds us that supremacism can only serve as a gateway to hell.

60th TIFF: Greek Premiere

Moffie trailer
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CAST & CREW

OLIVER HERMANUS

SPONSORS

COSMOTE
Alphabank
Fischer
Aegean

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