Director: Oliver Hermanus

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Birthday: 1983-01-01
Born in: Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa
Biography: South African director and writer, born in Cape Town in 1983. After graduating in film, media and visual studies, he worked as a photographer for a news agency. He then completed his studies at the London Film School, making his first film, Shirley Adams (2009). He later directed Beauty (winner of the Queer Palm Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival), The Endless River (first South African film in competition at the 2015 Venice Film Festival), Moffie (2019) and Living (2022) with Bill Nighy.

Known for

Living

London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.
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Moffie

A young man in 1981 South Africa must complete his brutal and racist two years of compulsory military service while desperately maintaining the secrecy of his homosexuality.
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Beauty

François van Heerden, a mid-40s Afrikaans family man, has become devoid of any care or concern for his own measure of happiness, and so convinced of his ill-fated existence, that he is wholly unprepared when a chance encounter unravels his clean, controlled life.
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The Endless River

A young waitress welcomes her husband home to the small South African town of Riviersonderend (Endless River) after his four-year jail sentence. At first it appears their plans for a new life together are finally being realized. But when the family of a foreigner living on a nearby farm is brutally murdered, the young woman and the grieving widower begin gravitating towards each other. Trapped in a cycle of violence and bloodshed, the two form an unlikely bond seeking to transcend their mutual anger, pain and loneliness.
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The Endless River

2015

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