Starring three powerful women, Whoopi Goldberg, Leleti Khumalo and Miriam Makebe, it first released in 1992 and has now been been digitally remastered 31 years later to screen at IMAX theatres ...

TF1 Studio/ Newen Connect has picked up international sales rights to “Sarafina!,” the iconic South African musical-dance-drama that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1992. “Sarafina!” was the ...

The Cannes Film Festival, running from 16 to 27 May, has announced Sarafina! for the 2023 official selection in the Cannes Classics category. The Cannes Classics category recognises films that are ...

Cape Town – The film Sarafina! will be shown for free in cinemas and on e.tv on Youth Day on Thursday. For the 40th anniversary of the "Soweto Uprising" on 16 June 1976 the film, set in Soweto, will ...

Sarafina! is rightfully lauded as a great film here at home and in many parts of the world because of its succinct depiction of the watershed events of June 16 1976. The South African film is a ...

One of the most iconic films to come out of South Africa has been officially selected to form part of the Cannes Classics line-up at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Producer Anant Singh’s “Sarafina!

Mbongeni Ngema, the South African creator of Whoopi Goldberg film Sarafina!, has died in a car accident. He was aged 68. Ngema’s family announced his death in a statement, revealing that he was killed ...

It is also the first time that any South African film features for a second time at Cannes. A digitally remastered Producer's Cut with footage never-seen-before will be screened in partnership with ...

From L-R: Miriam Makeba, Leleti Khumalo, Whoopi Goldberg and Anant Singh at Cannes Film Festival in 1992. The film returns to Cannes this year. Photo: supplied “It is exciting to be returning to the ...

The musical was adapted into a musical drama starring Whoopi Goldberg in 1992, becoming an international success. By The Associated Press, THR Staff Renowned South African playwright, producer and ...

Sarafina! has been selected for the 76th edition of the Cannes Film da Festival in France three decades after the show was created. The festival announced Sarafina! for the 2023 Official Selection — ...