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Loaded with a love story and set in the club scene in Cape Town, it’s a feel good rags to riches film about Raps, a gifted young dancer from the Cape Flats who thinks all he needs is fame and money. However, it all gets complicated when he falls in love with the gorgeous young wife of the gangster-cum-producer who’s making his career happen.
Set in an Aussie farmhouse and a 50's style diner, Rocfish presents this classic tale of a Father's love for his runaway child.
Kanarie (Afrikaans for 'Canary') is a coming-of-age musical war drama. Drafted into the South African army during apartheid, a young soldier joins the military's traveling choir, and romance on the battlefield causes him to deal with his long-repressed sexual identity through hardship, camaraderie, first love, and the liberating freedom of music, the true self can be discovered.
The plot centers on students involved in the Soweto Riots, in opposition to the implementation of Afrikaans as the language of instruction in schools. The stage version presents a school uprising similar to the Soweto uprising on June 16, 1976. A narrator introduces several characters among them the school girl activist Sarafina. Things get out of control when a policeman shoots several pupils in a classroom. Nevertheless, the musical ends with a cheerful farewell show of pupils leaving school, which takes most of act two. In the movie version Sarafina feels shame at her mother's (played by Miriam Makeba in the film) acceptance of her role as domestic servant in a white household in apartheid South Africa, and inspires her peers to rise up in protest, especially after her inspirational teacher, Mary Masombuka (played by Whoopi Goldberg in the film version) is imprisoned.
Tribute concert dedicated to Florent Pagny, recent cancer survivor, celebrated with various French singers.
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.
Raised in the South African township of Zamelda, Johannes 'JoJo' Radebe faced prejudice as a young boy who was captivated by dance – and Barbies… rather than football and rugby, as was the norm among his peers. With the support of his mother, sister, and a dance coach who spotted his gift, he became a champion ballroom dancer and popular celebrity. Having been one of the professional dancers on the South African Strictly Come Dancing, he has appeared on the British version of the show since 2018.
South African producer / director JON DAY spent the last 5 years making a documentary about the mysterious rap-rave group, DIE ANTWOORD. Art directed by surrealist photographer, ROGER BALLEN. Narrated by NINJA & ¥O-LANDI'S daughter, 16 JONES.
A group of redcaps in a train station perform musical numbers to raise money for a sick member of their group.
In 1994, Whitney Houston took the stage in Durban, South Africa, making her the first major Western musician to visit the newly unified, post-apartheid nation following President Nelson Mandela’s winning election. This performance was more than a concert; it was a celebration of freedom, hope, and unity. Whitney’s powerhouse voice and emotional delivery brought joy and inspiration to a country newly liberated. Now, 30 years after the historic visit, The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban) comes to the big screen for the first time. Digitally remastered in 4K and featuring newly-enhanced audio, the film captures every note, every cheer, every tear, immortalizing a night that transcended music and became a beacon of change and celebration.
In 1880 South Africa, young Betsy has an adventure involving Zulu Tribesmen, Dutch Settlers, The Vortrekkers, and her older brother's romance of Katie Snee.
Singer Paul Simon and several African musicians perform a concert to benefit victims of apartheid in South Africa.
Qhusaa is a visceral cinematic experience that blurs the line between music video and narrative film. Inspired by Lolo Vandal’s electrifying performance, the film follows a young township poet whose voice becomes a weapon of resistance and healing. Told through rhythmic monologues and immersive visuals, the story unfolds like a direct-to-camera confession-raw, unfiltered, and emotionally charged. With a beat that pulses like a heartbeat and visuals that radiate township swagger, Qhusaa is less a cry of pain and more a celebration of resilience. Lolo Vandal rides the rhythm with effortless cool, his isiXhosa verses
South African fusion band Mango Groove performs 19 songs for a concert at Carnival City Casino's Big Top Arena in Gauteng, South Africa on 18 September 2010.
In the heart of a gritty working-class community pulsing with rhythm and resilience, Lolo Vandal; a charismatic rapper with a mysterious past; uses music as his lifeline and weapon. Known for mentoring youth and fathering not just his own children but anyone drawn to the healing power of sound, Lolo becomes a beacon in a neighbourhood plagued by crime, poverty, and broken dreams. As he battles to steer his protégés away from the wrong path, love and loyalty are tested. The streets are unforgiving, and survival demands vision beyond talent. Beneath his lyrical genius lies a deeper mission: Lolo is secretly an agent scouting gifted minds to build a future empire rooted in justice, discipline, and creativity. As truths unravel and enemies close in, Lolo must decide: remain the voice of the streets or rise as architect of a new order.
The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the South African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his young son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.
A mischievous 11-year-old Jó urgently wants to rectify her past year of being naughty and is gathering a diverse gang to steal Christmas gifts from the rich and give them to the local orphanage.
For Rod Kimble, performing stunts is a way of life, even though he is rather accident-prone. Poor Rod cannot even get any respect from his stepfather, Frank, who beats him up in weekly sparring matches. When Frank falls ill, Rod devises his most outrageous stunt yet to raise money for Frank's operation -- and then Rod will kick Frank's butt.
Two prospectors in Africa, Tony Cooper and Dalton come across a skeleton that has nearly been picked clean by vultures. They find a letter on the body addressed to a clerk in London named Wilkins . Cooper goes to Wilkins in London and tells him that his brother, whose body they had found, has left a map and a deed to a large diamond mine. Wilkins decides to go to Africa with Cooper to find the mine and, in order to speed up and finance their venture, they give a third interest to Carol Reade and her partner John Trevor), who operate a barnstorming airplane service. In Africa, close to the mine location, they are greeted by some tough gentlemen named Collins and Quincy who have terrorized the natives and lorded over the region, who quickly discover the reason for the party's mission. They join, unasked, in the race for the diamonds. The race is interrupted by the death of Trevor who is found knifed in his bunk.
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