This local film about toxic masculinity is getting international recognition at just the right moment

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This local film about toxic masculinity is getting international recognition at just the right moment MoffieFilm

Oliver Hermanus attends 'Moffie' photocall during the 76th Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy.

"Just as white people have perceptions of black people, black people have perceptions of white people," said the director, who comes from the Cape Coloured community, which was also persecuted under apartheid. "Silence and repression of trauma permeates our society. We are having a huge conversation now about gender-based violence... about how men treat women."

"Living that at a critical time in your life, aged 17 or 18, it forms the person that you are, and it is just damage," he said. So for his father"coming from being in the army fighting the 'terrorists' to having a black son, the shift has been so immense.

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