Hermanus, who is gay and black, feels lucky to have grown up most of his life in the post-apartheid era. Hermanus is now in pre-production on Living, which he will shoot in the summer in London with Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education) as leads.

Moffie is an Afrikaan slang word for being Gay. Throughout this film and especially during the atrociously brutal army training it is used along with many other anti-Gay words, and the numbing repetition of the damning words are meant to brainwash the new army recruits.

At night, Stassen (Ryan de Villiers) coaxes Nick to share his blanket and as Nick tentatively cuddles up with Stassen, who strokes Nick’s face and hair, a hopeful romance quietly blossoms. Unfortunately, when Nick returns, Stassen is gone. “Moffie” depicts Nick’s efforts to track Stassen down, and possibly out himself.

English
Afrikaans
Moffie/Languages

Western Cape
Principal photography took place in early 2019 across the Western Cape. The crew scouted period-appropriate sites. Filming locations included Saron, Hopefield, and Grabouw. The ending scene was filmed on Windmill Beach in Simon’s Town.

Like several other South African languages, Afrikaans is a cross-border language spanning sizeable communities of speakers in Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. In South Africa and Namibia it’s spoken across all social indices, by the poor and the rich, by rural and urban people, by the under-educated and the educated.

Yes, ‘Moffie’ is based on a true story. The film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name written by Andre Carl van der Merwe. The autobiographical novel is based on van der Merwe’s real experiences during his two-year service in the South African Defence Force (SADF).

homosexual
/ (ˈmɒfɪ) Southern African slang / noun. a homosexual.

28 years (February 17, 1993)
Kai Luke Brümmer/Age

homosexual man
(ˈmɒfɪ ) South Africa offensive, slang. 1. an effeminate or homosexual man.

moffie in British English (ˈmɒfɪ ) South Africa offensive, slang. 1. an effeminate or homosexual man.