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With his Sundance drama Living, director Oliver Hermanus (Moffie, Beauty) would find the chance to adapt Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru, putting his own stamp on the 1952 classic. The project emerged from a script by Kazuo Ishiguro, the Nobel Prize winning novelist and screenwriter behind such titles as Never Let Me Go and The…

Given the Apartheid-era backdrop of Moffie, there are more than enough prejudices to go around — anti-black, anti-gay, anti-communist, anti-British, for starters — and South African director Oliver Hermanus makes nuanced use of all of them in his very fine fourth feature. Premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2019…

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 platforms via IFC Films on April 9. Check out the new trailer above. Written and directed by Oliver Hermanus, the movie…