Oliver Hermanus

‘Inxeba/The Wound’ is but one of the films of the growing body of literary and visual texts which have focused on queer lived experiences in Africa.

Oliver Hermanus’s film <i>Skoonheid</i> is raking in the prizes, whether in Cannes or, last weekend, at the Durban International Film Festival.

An all-male orgy of married Afrikaners is just one of the scenes from <i>Skoonheid</i> that shocked — and impressed — the Cannes Film Festival judge

The director of <i>Shirley Adams</i> harboured no goals to be a famous filmmaker.

There are few South African films that have been as daring in their choice of narrative style as Oliver Hermanus’s <i>Shirley Adams</i>.