Social realism with an Afrikaner voice makes a play at fest Hermanus was mentored by Roland Emmerich, who helped fund his studies at the London Film School, but his graduation film, “Shirley Adams” — ...

Oliver Hermanus’ film is a plodding South African drama that feels like a short stretched into a feature By Jordan Mintzer ‘Little Amélie or the Character of ...

Cape Town – Afrikaans film Skoonheid has been selected as the South African entrant for the Best Foreign Language Film category at next year's Oscars, according to the film's director, Oliver Hermanus ...

Well here it is folks, the day I ve been waiting for TIFF 2011 starts today and there s a ton of exciting films worth catching at the festival. Too many to see in fact so I m going to have to make my ...

Oliver Hermanus has made a movie called “Skoonheid” which exposes the private shames and secret obsessions of a conservative, white, Afrikaans man. A study in regret, lust and self-destruction, this ...

Deon Lotz, one of the stars in South Africa's "Skoonheid" movie, has won the Best Actor award at the Zurich Film Festival. He won the award for an Outstanding Performance by an Actor for the film. In ...

Social realism with an Afrikaner voice makes a play at fest “It’s the story of a man who is of a different time and feels left out of the new South Africa,” says Hermanus, who further describes ...