The History of Sound
Oliver Hermanus
2025
In 1917, two young music students attending the Boston Conservatory bond over a mutual love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song-collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.
Oliver Hermanus studied at the University of Cape Town and received a scholarship for the University of California. In 2006 he was offered a private scholarship by film director Roland Emmerich to complete his MA at the London Film School. In 2015, THE ENDLESS RIVER became the first South African film to be nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. MOFFIE (2019) premiered in the Horizons section of Venice Film Festival and won the Mermaid Award for best LGBTQI-themed film at the 60th edition of Thessaloniki International Film Festival. In 2025, Hermanus competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes with THE HISTORY OF SOUND.
Living (2022); Moffie (2019); The Endless River (2015)
