Moffie is a new film from South African director writer-director Oliver Hermanus that was set to open in cinemas internationally before the coronavirus pandemic happened. It is now being released on streaming platforms. The film follows a gay teen in his required military service with the South Afri...

The year is 1981 and South Africa’s white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of 16, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the apartheid regime. The threat of communism and “